Quite a Year for Plums: A Novel
by Bailey White
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679445315
- ISBN 13
- 9780679445319
- Seller
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CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Rock River Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8
- Title
- Quite a Year for Plums
- Author
- Bailey White
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover brown and sage boards, copper titling on spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679445315
- ISBN 13
- 9780679445319
- Publisher
- Knopf Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Southern fiction, humor
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Collectibles; Humor;
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