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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#MagnificentMarch #Happy I read this a long time ago and remember liking it.As to the blurb The “New Mockingbird “ that‘s just advertising.😂It takes place in North Carolina, & won the William Faulkner award for best first novel.(1962)I do remember Price as a writer who writes characters who are vivid and complex.
funny,one of the 1st things I flipped to in the “Lives Of The Novelists” was Reynolds Price.I wonder often if his health had not totally collapsed, what more he would have written.These books that I kept in storage for years , I have to tell you are wonderful! Kate Vaiden was one of those books that made me realize what a good novel can tell you , what it can make you feel.The fact that he is not talked about more often is a loss to readers.
A Long and Happy Life: A Novel | 
