Heartbreak Hotel

In Montgomery, Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. Has Organized A Bus Boycott. In Tuscaloosa, Outrage Surrounds The Entrance Of The State University's First Black Student. But At Little Randolph University, Sweltering In The Summer Heat, Life Remains Dreamily The Same. At Kappa House, The Sorority Sisters Talk Of Who Has Pinned Whom, And Whether They Can Sneak Past Their Housemother So They Can Party At An Out-of-town Bar. Even Among This Privileged Group, Pretty, Popular Kappa Sister Maggie Deloach Is Unquestionably One Of The Elite...until She Commits A Single Act Of Defiance And Courage That Forever Alters The Way Others Think Of Her, And How Maggie Thinks Of Herself.

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the Year Is 1956. Eisenhower Is President, The United States Is Prosperous, And Elvis Is King. Underneath This Happy Era Of Relative Peace Are The Powder Kegs Of The Civil And Women's Rights Movements. Maggie Deloach Is A Senior At A Small Southern College. She Is A Golden Girl, Active In Sorority And Campus Functions, And Attached To Boots Claiborne, A Rich Fellow Whom She Is Expected To Marry. She Is On The Path To Being The Perfect Southern Matron. However, A Series Of Events Shatter Maggie's Perfect World And Make Her Aware Of The Storm Lurking Beneath The Calm Of The Times. Though Painfully Slow In Starting, Listeners Will Enjoy This Tale Of A Young Woman Who Realizes That She Is Not Happy With The Life She Is Expected To Lead. For Most Collections.-- Danna C. Bell-russel, Marymount Univ. Lib. , Arlington, Va.