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Praise for Lowcountry Summer:Lowcountry Summer (Harper Audio) by Dorothea Benton Frank is a sequel to Plantation, with Caroline Wimbley Levine returning to Tall Pines in one of the author’s trademark warmly humorous stories; Robin Miles gives it a rich read. (St. Petersburg Times )
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Characters/People edit
- Patti: Cate's sister.
- Aunt Daisy: Cate and Patti's sister.
- Dubose Heyward: Playwright
- Cait Mahon Cooper: Main character. She is made a widow in the beginning of the story and left to find out who she really is.
- Patti Mahon: Cait's sister. She is a pastry chef and married to Mark.
- Sara: Cate's daughter
- Alice: Russ's wife. A pain in the butt. Bossy, demanding, etc.
- Russ: Cate's son.
- Daisy McInerny: Cait and Patti's aging aunt. She raised them and they love her dearly.
- Dorothy Heyward: Dubose' wife.
- Edwin DuBose Heyward: Known as DuBose, he is Dorothy's husband and worked with George Gershwin.
- Ella: Aunt Dorothy's long time partner.
- Jenifer: Dubose and Dorothy's daughter.
- Cate Cooper: Main character.
- John Risley: College professor that is interested in the Charleston Renaissance.
- Lisa: Add a description of this character.
- Albertina
- Sara Cooper: Cate and Addison's daughter. She is 25 and wants to be an actress.
- Alice Cooper: Russ' wife that no one really likes.
- Macdowell
- Cunningham
- Janie
- Russ Cooper: The oldest child of Cait and Addison. He is a teacher/coach.
- Richard
- Mary Jo
- Mel
- Jo Pinckney
- Ms. Geier
- Mark: Patti's husband and a good guy.
- Dorothy Kuhns Heyward: Wife of DuBose and she may have loved him so much that she gave him credit for her writing.
- Addison Cooper: Cait's husband that commits suicide in the beginning of the story.
- George Gershwin: Famous composer that worked with Dorothy and DuBose Heyward.
- Jenifer Heyward: Challenging daughter of Dorothy and DuBose.
- Heather Parke: Mother of Addison's love child.
- Albertina / Tina: The Cooper's maid in New Jersey. She and Cait had a friendship.
- Lisa Risley: John's mentally ill wife.
- Josephine Pinckney: A member of the Charleston Renaissance and a friend of Dorothy and DuBose Heyward.
- Dr. Ragone: An ER doctor that helps Aunt Daisy.
- Nurse Rosol: Head nurse at the hospital.
Quotes edit
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“I'd rather be forgotten than be something you try to forget and can't.”
Suzo from "The Young Ghost"
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We learned that you never got used to losing your parents. You just got used to the pain.
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They say you can raise one hundred boys for the energy it takes to raise one girl and I think truer words were never spoken.
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ungapatched and maybe even fachalata but it was really beautiful. Aunt Daisy’s taste in fabrics
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We were far too pragmatic for that sort of self-indulgence, having been cut from suck-it-up cloth.
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“The poor people don’t pay their bills because they don’t have the money. But the rich people don’t pay their bills because they don’t want to!”
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‘I’d rather be forgotten than be something you try to forget and can’t.’
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“And, my darling boy? You’re going to realize for the first time how much I love you when you hold your own child.”
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“Baroque is when you’re out of Monet,”
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Lowcountry Summer Return
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I was never as happy anywhere as I was with DuBose. And in this house. And on this island. Life without a great love is no life at all.
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Setting & Locations edit
- Charleston
- New Jersey
- New York
- South Carolina
- Charleston, South Carolina: City near Folly Beach
- Alpine, New Jersey: Where Cait and Patti live in the beginning of the story.
- Heywards
- Dallas
- America
- Hollywood
- New York City: Dorothy and Addison worked here.
- Alpine
- Lowcountry: Folly Beach is considered to be a part of this.
- Porgy House: Where Porgy and Bess was written. Home to the Heywards and Cait.
- Ohio: Where Dorothy Kuhns Heyward was from.
- North Carolina: Heywards owned a home here.
First Sentence edit
Setting: St. Philip's Cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina.
Table of Contents edit
ONE ACT I SCENE 1
Two Cate At the Cemetery
THREE ACT I SCENE 2
Four Cate Needs a Plan
FIVE ACT I SCENE 3
Six Cate Packing
SEVEN ACT I SCENE 4
Eight Cate Road Trip
NINE ACT I SCENE 5
Ten Cate The Porgy House
ELEVEN ACT II SCENE 1
Twelve Cate The Piano
THIRTEEN ACT II SCENE 2
Fourteen Cate About Dorothy
FIFTEEN ACT II SCENE 3
Sixteen Cate Grandma
SEVENTEEN ACT II SCENE 4
Eighteen Cate The Moon
NINETEEN ACT II SCENE 5
Twenty Cate The Piano
TWENTY-ONE ACT III SCENE 1
Twenty-Two Cate The Hospital
TWENTY-THREE ACT III SCENE 2
Twenty-Four Cate The Sisters
TWENTY-FIVE ACT III SCENE 3
Twenty-Six Cate Aunt Daisy
TWENTY-SEVEN ACT III SCENE 4
Twenty-Eight Cate In Control
TWENTY-NINE ACT III SCENE 5
Thirty Cate The Playwright
Epilogue September 2010
Series & Lists edit
This is book 8 of 8 in Lowcountry Tales. (standard series)
Preceded by Lowcountry Summer.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Dorothea Benton Frank (Author)
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Page Count: 368
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Page Count: 368
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- Dewey: 813
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