cover image Silver Desoto

Silver Desoto

Patty L. Floyd. Pocket Books, $5.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-671-66939-3

``With unassuming blandness, this first-time author begins a collection of anecdotes shaped by a child-narrator whose voice resonates more and more insistently as they proceed . . . the reader is transported,'' praised PW . The coming-of-age story features Betty Jane, her prescient Nanna and her friend Bob Wyantwho owns a silver DeSoto. (Jan.)