A Short History of a Small Place

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Marvelously funny, bittersweet, and beautifully evocative, the original publication of A Short History of a Small Place announced the arrival of one of our great Southern voices. Although T. R. Pearson's Neely, North Carolina, doesn't appear on any map of the state, it has already earned a secure place on the literary landscape of the South. In this introduction to Neely, the young narrator, Louis Benfield, recounts the tragic last days of Miss Myra Angelique Pettigrew, a local spinster and former town belle who, after years of total seclusion, returns flamboyantly to public view-with her pet monkey, Mr. Britches. Here is a teeming human comedy inhabited by some of the most eccentric and endearing characters ever encountered in literature.

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Pearson's 1985 outing is another one of those humorous novels set in a fictional Southern town populated by eccentrics. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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Name in long format: A Short History of a Small Place
ISBN-10: 014200362X
ISBN-13: 9780142003626
Book pages: 384
Book language: en
Edition: Reissue
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Dimensions: Height: 0.72 Inches, Length: 7.82 Inches, Weight: 0.58 Pounds, Width: 4.98 Inches

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