01808cam a2200265 4500 214749250 TxAuBib 20101214120000.0 011205s1999||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9921849 9780345433176 0345433173 TxAuBib Landvik, Lorna. Tall pine polka / Lorna Landvik. New York : Ballantine Publishing Group, 1999. 440 pages. In the small town of Tall Pine, Minnesota, at the Cup O’Delight Cafe, the townsfolk gather for what they call the Tall Pine Polka, an event in which heavenly coffee, good food, and that feeling of being alive among friends inspires both body and soul to dance. There’s the cafe owner, the robust and beautiful Lee O’Leary, who escaped to the northwoods from an abusive husband; Miss Penk and Frau Katt, the town’s only lesbian couple (“Well, we’re za only ones who admit it.”); Pete, proprietor of the Shoe Shack, who spends nights crafting beautiful shoes to present to Lee, along with his declarations of love; Mary, whose bad poetry can clear out the cafe in seconds flat; and, most important of all, Lee’s best friend, Fenny Ness, a smart and sassy twenty-two-year-old going on eighty. When Hollywood rolls into Tall Pine to shoot a movie, and a handsome musician known as Big Bill appears on the scene, Lee and Fenny find their friendship put to the test, as events push their hearts in unexplored directions—where endings can turn into new beginnings. . . . 20011205. Festivals Fiction. City and town life Fiction. Restaurants Fiction. Minnesota Fiction. Domestic fiction.