01464cam a2200361 i 4500 345721084 TxAuBib 20100915120000.0 100526s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010021669 9780312609764 0312609760 (OCoLC)555654308 TxAuBib rda Smith, Haywood, 1949- Waking up in Dixie / Haywood Smith. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2010. ix, 372 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Cruel, small-town banker Howell Whittington has a stroke sitting up in church, and when he wakes up, he's transformed and wants nothing more than to be a real husband, which scares his proper, repressed wife Elizabeth to death. Setting out to right past wrongs, he blackmails the town's baddies into doing the right thing by threatening to foreclose on their mortgages. A hilarious story of marriage and love and second chances. 20100924. Married people Fiction. Bankers Fiction. Small cities Fiction. Midlife crisis Fiction. Life change events Fiction. Georgia Fiction. Humorous fiction. Domestic fiction.