What do You think about Downtown (1995)?
picture on cover of box is the same as on the book.4 cassettes 1-55994-732-2set in the 60's when birth control pills were just coming outstory of a typical young woman who has uneven development, ie her marital and romantic notions are not as mature as her intellectual aspect. She is brave, even assertive and then a pushover by turn. Not that this is so unusual in today's women. The sex scenes make a good effort but seem not to be either erotic or realistic when either one would have been ok wit
—Elizabeth
Maureen O'Donnell, known as Smoky, moves from Savannah to Atlanta to accept a position with a new magazine called Downtown published by the Chamber of Commerce. Raised Catholic, her parents only let her go if she promises to board at a convent. But she quickly gets absorbed into the lives of the magazine staff and moves in to an apartment with one of the other women and going out to eat and drink with the other staffers. Her position provides opportunity to meet a wide range of people - from the cultured to those involved in the Civil Rights movement in 1966. Re-read in 2013 to rate. Could have done without the cursing but enjoyed the story line.
—Sue
Smoky O'Donnell, a small town southern Catholic girl in the 1960's, accepts a job as layout editor for the newly published "Downtown" magazine, put out by the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. Her strict parents allow her to go only on the condition that she live in a convent that takes in boarders and that she live the conven¬tional life of a sheltered religious girl of her time. But the staff of "Downtown" is not like this they work all hours, go out together to eat and drink a lot, and meet and interact with all kinds of people. Very quickly she moves out of the convent and shares an apartment with one of the other young women on the staff of the magazine. She becomes romantically involved with Bradley Hunt III, handsome, wealthy, with fixed attitudes that eventually wreck their engagement. Also prominent in the story are Lucas Geary, a photographer for the magazine, and black lawyer and freedom fighter John Howard. Apparently based somewhat on the years Siddons was in Atlanta. There was a real Atlanta magazine. This is a good contemporary romance/realistic novel.
—Linda
