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Heavenly Days

Heavenly Days Hardcover - 2003

by WILCOX, James

  • Used
  • near fine
  • Hardcover
  • first

Beloved Southern chronicler James Wilcox, with his rare blend of hilarity and compassion, is a novelist whose work has been featured in both Harold Bloom's The Western Canon and GQ's recent list of the forty-five best fiction books published in the last forty-five years.

Tula Springs, Louisiana, first created by Wilcox two decades ago, is striving to find its foothold in a disarmingly modern world. So, for that matter, is Lou Jones-middle aged, sensitive, and gutsy-who lives in a $295,000 Cajun cabin and works as the receptionist at a fundamentalist health emporium in a defunct train station. It's the only job in town that doesn't require computer literacy and she earns three times what the state college paid her for teaching music theory. Soon the bemused Lou finds herself embroiled with the North American Bassoon Society, a gun-toting tax assessor, her maid's enigmatic polite-society mother, her laid-off husband's obsession with his childhood home, and the theft of a much-disputed ornate dresser. Heavenly Days is James Wilcox at his best, a gift to his longtime readers and to a whole generation of new ones.

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New York: Viking, 2003. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Remainder mark, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with faded spine.
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  • Title Heavenly Days
  • Author WILCOX, James
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 199
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Viking, New York
  • Date 2003
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 385796
  • ISBN 9780670032471 / 0670032476
  • Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.04 x 6.32 x 0.81 in (22.96 x 16.05 x 2.06 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003050164
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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"Very, very funny . . . wonder and brilliance . . . comic genius and poignant revelation." (The Boston Sunday Globe)"That great rarity, a genuine original." (Newsweek)