Summary
This collection, set in her native South, was published when Doris Betts was still a college student.
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"[Betts is] already a master of the short story form [and] a candidate for an important position among those concerned with serious and perceptive reporting in literary form of the Southern small town and Southern people." -- Robert Tallant
-- New York Times Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr
Published date: 1997
Size: 5.5 x 9 inches
Weight: 0.75 pounds
Pages: 274
Publisher's Notes
The stories in this extraordinary first collection are concerned with some of the most private and complicated issues: living and dying, growing old, questioning one's beliefs, and recognizing one's own failings. Whether it is an old man struggling to come to terms with an incident in his past or a meddling spinster who is forced to recognize the subtle dance of resentment, in each of these stories a "gentle insurrection" occurs that changes lives forever.
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