Sadie Shapiro in Miami

Sadie Shapiro #2

by Robert Kimmel Smith

New York : Simon and Schuster This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

Genres: Fiction

189 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Robert Kimmel Smith began dreaming of becoming a writer at the age of eight, when he spent three months in bed reading while recovering from rheumatic fever. He enrolled in Brooklyn College in 1947, and served in the U.S. Army, in Germany, from 1951-1953. In 1954 he married Claire Medney, his editor and literary agent. They have two children: Heidi (1962) and Roger (1967). After writing advertising copy from 1957 to 1969, Robert Kimmel Smith became a full-time writer in 1970.

Reviews

[Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was my first encounter with Sadie Shapiro Beck, knitter extraordinaire. Now a celebrity in her own right, with a charitable Foundation in her name, Sadie is invited to be spokesperson and poster child for Senior World, described by another character as "Disneyland for oldsters." But the promoter and developer gets more than he bargained for with Sadie!

The second volume in the Sadie trilogy shows a few changes from the Knitting Book days. Sadie's and Sam's children and their children seem to have vanished, as has Marion Wall's daughter. Her language is more "fractured" if possible than in the first volume. (What are you, a Doubting Timid?) But our Sadie is still doing what she knows best: jogging, knitting, and untangling the knotted skeins of other people's lives, with or without their consent.´

This is a light, refreshing, joyous read. It will leave you with a smile on your face and a yen for a cup of tea and a snuggly sweater.