Plain Seeing: A Novel

by Sandra Scofield

Searching for the truth behind the myth of her late mother's life--a glamorous actress whose dreams of stardom were cut short by childbirth--Lucy Laura leaves her lover and child for Hollywood, where she meets her father. National ad/promo. Tour.

Genres: Fiction

320 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1997

Reviews

[Karla Kitalong · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought I was rereading this, but I couldn't recall anything about it, so I don't think I read it before. It was good, but I kept getting the characters Laura, Laurie, Lucy mixed up. Lucy is the main character.

[Rhonda Wiley-Jones · Rating 4 out of 5]

Awkward. An awkward book to read. Names confusing. Time frame shot back and forth. But the longer I read the book the more invested in it I became. Probably worth it for most folk.

[Anne · Rating 1 out of 5]

A girl loses her mother at 15, then spends the rest of her life suffering from it and trying to recover.She searches for information into her mother's past, which took place in Texas during the Depression and Hollywood during the 1940s. The writing is graceless and stiff, short and choppy; odd transitions; mixed-up paragraphs. Not pleasing.

[Laura McKelvey · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was not hopeful that this book would be good when I first started reading it, but I ended it impressed. Here is my blog entry about it:

http://thedismantledlibrary.blogspot....

[Candice · Rating 1 out of 5]

The beginning had me hooked, by the middle I was getting annoyed, come to the end, I was just glad it was over.