[book_talk] book review - Dorothy Gilman
- From: "Bonnie L. Sherrell" <blslarner@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 23:10:53 -0800
_The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax_
by Dorothy Gilman
narrated by Barbara Rosenblat
Mrs. Emily Pollifax is the poster-child for sweet, grandmotherly
widows. She volunteers at the hospital, wheeling the library cart from
room to room. She is a member of the garden club. She prepares cakes
for bake sales and pours tea at church luncheons. She takes karate
lessons twice a week. And from time to time she serves as a courier
for the C.I.A.
Mr. Carstairs needs someone to go to Istanbul to a small hotel and
appear in the lobby at eight o'clock with a copy of _Gone with the
Wind_ so as to meet what is supposed to be a defecting Russian agent
and give her a passport and enough money to flee the Eastern Bloc to
the West. Who, seeing Mrs. Pollifax there, definitely an American
tourist with a most colorful floral hat, would ever consider her to
possibly be there to help a spy?
But things don't go precisely as planned, and it is up to Emily
Pollifax and a frustrated expatriate British youth to save the day--and
themselves--from a most unexpected sleeper agent who intends to
retrieve whatever secrets the fleeing Russian agent might have brought
to Turkey with her....
I first became aware of Dorothy Gilman's work while I was in college,
and my mom and I both became enamored of Emily Pollifax and her work
for the much troubled Mr. Carstairs! I like Ms. Rosenblat's reading,
although I think she possibly makes Mrs. Pollifax sound a bit older
than she was.
A fun, light read for those who like spy adventures and unusual
heroines!
Bonnie L. Sherrell
Teacher at Large
"Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the very wise
cannot see all ends." LOTR
"Don't go where I can't follow."
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