The Man Next Door
Emerson Hough
Paperback
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Nov. 30, 2017)
Curly, a stereotype of the illiterate lovable cowpoke encountered in books and on film but seldom in reality, relates the story of Bonnie Bell Wright in her search for culture, happiness and a suitable husband. After growing up on a Wyoming ranch with a doting father and a host of admiring cowboys, beautiful Bonnie Bell is transported to Smith College to "... be made a lady of " then to Chicago where her father and Curly have adjourned to live out their lives in style. Bonnie Bell's introduction to society and ostracism at the hand of Chicago's wealthy and elite make entertaining, though somewhat less than essential, reading for the fiction enthusiast. --Book Review Digest, 1917