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"A LONG AND HAPPY LIFE deals with love - simply yet subtly, tenderly and movingly. The question it asks is, What happens when a necessary charitable gesture recoils? when its effect is the opposite of one's intention? Rosacoke Mustian is an unforgettable character - perhaps that rarest of figures in a novel: an unmistakably and deeply good woman. She hopes for and dreams of "a long and happy life," and one experiences her many difficulties and frustrations with tender amusement, affection and respect. She gives herself; the gift is misunderstood and not appreciated. Yet the purity of her intent, of her whole attitude toward life, toward herself and others, cannot be corrupted, and it is hardly an overstatement to say that the reader himself will grow in wisdom as Rosacoke grows, until with her he understands and accepts the necessity of change in relationships of love." -- From the book's dust jacket. Winner of the 1962 William Faulkner Award for notable first novel. Reynolds Price, born Edward Reynolds Price, was an American poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. He was born and died (2011) in North Carolina.
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- PublisherAtheneum
- Publication date1962
- ISBN 10 1111007373
- ISBN 13 9781111007379
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages195
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