I wish I could have sat and had a cup of coffee with Vera Cleaver. (She died in 1992.) I'd like to see how a woman who so obviously loved WORDS used them in conversation. She seems to me to be an example of the "greatest strength is also greatest weakness" principle; a stunningly crafted phrase will be followed a few lines later with a sentence so awkward that you have to read it twice. But the payoff is more than worth the effort.
Cleaver and her husband Bill are best known for the multiple award-winning Where the Lilies Bloom (1969).
Queen of Hearts finds "twelve-year-old Wilma being chosen as her willful and peppery grandmother's choice for a (live-in) companion." I won't forget Wilma Omalie Lincoln and what she learned about getting old and about growing up.
We all need to bury our plastic six-shooters at some point.
Quality = 4 out of 5; Acceptability = 4 out of 5.
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