A Long and Happy Life
Autor Reynolds Priceen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 2009
From its dazzling opening page, which announced the appearance of a stylist of the first rank, to its moving close, this brief novel has charmed and captivated millions of readers since its original publication almost fifty years ago. The troubled love story of pretty, headstrong Rosacoke Mustian and the motorcycle-riding, stoic Wesley Beavers, "A Long and Happy Life" beautifully evokes a rural North Carolina now long gone.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781439109342
ISBN-10: 1439109346
Pagini: 210
Dimensiuni: 124 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Scribner
ISBN-10: 1439109346
Pagini: 210
Dimensiuni: 124 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Scribner
Notă biografică
Reynolds Price (1933–2011) was born in Macon, North Carolina. Educated at Duke University and, as a Rhodes Scholar, at Merton College, Oxford University, he taught at Duke beginning in 1958 and was the James B. Duke Professor of English at the time of his death. His first short stories, and many later ones, are published in his Collected Stories. A Long and Happy Life was published in 1962 and won the William Faulkner Award for a best first novel. Kate Vaiden was published in 1986 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Good Priest's Son in 2005 was his fourteenth novel. Among his thirty-seven volumes are further collections of fiction, poetry, plays, essays, and translations. Price is a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and his work has been translated into seventeen languages.