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Quite a Year for Plums: A Novel
by White, Bailey
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679445315
- ISBN 13
- 9780679445319
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1998. BE1 - An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in light green paper covered boards quarter bound in brown paper covered boards with metallic copper lettering and graphics on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear mainly in the form of some very light rubbing overall. Indelible vignettes of Southern eccentricity. The author is notable for her contributions to National Public Radio's 'All Things Considered' and this novel is in that vein. The story is of the peculiar yet lovable people who inhabit a small town in south Georgia. By the author of "Mama Makes Up Her Mind" and "Sleeping at the Starlite Motel and Other Adventures on the Way Back Home." 220p.. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Synopsis
Anyone who has read the best-selling Mama Makes Up Her Mind or listened to Bailey White's commentaries on NPR knows that she is a storyteller of inimitable wit and charm. Now, in her stunningly accomplished first novel, she introduces us to the peculiar yet lovable people who inhabit a small town in south Georgia. Meet serious, studious Roger, the peanut pathologist and unlikely love object of half the town's women. Meet Roger's ex-mother-in-law, Louise, who teams up with an ardent typographer in an attempt to attract outer-space invaders with specific combinations of letters and numbers. And meet Della, the bird artist who captivates Roger with the sensible but enigmatic notes she leaves on things she throws away at the Dumpster ("This fan works, but makes a clicking sound and will not oscillate"). Heartbreakingly tender, often hilarious, Quite a Year for Plums is a delectable treat from a writer who has been called a national treasure.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Title
- Quite a Year for Plums: A Novel
- Author
- White, Bailey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 3rd Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0679445315
- ISBN 13
- 9780679445319
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Fiction Literary Literature Georgia Eccentricity Southern South New Georgia South Town Small Towns Small
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Southern US Fiction;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Shelf Wear
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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