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Dorothy Parker
Esquire
June 1962
Nothing could tear me from [discussing collections of short stories] save this lovely book, A Long and Happy Life, by Reynolds Price -- and I cannot even begrudge the author his youth. Meticulously observed, beautifully told, it strikes too deep to fuss around with analysis. You can say only of it that it is indeed a lasting novel, a story of the South done with no violence -- you can say only, a lovely novel, with the firm brilliance of its writing to keep its loveliness from sticking to your fingers.
Review
Dorothy Parker Esquire June 1962 Nothing could tear me from [discussing collections of short stories] save this lovely book, A Long and Happy Life, by Reynolds Price -- and I cannot even begrudge the author his youth. Meticulously observed, beautifully told, it strikes too deep to fuss around with analysis. You can say only of it that it is indeed a lasting novel, a story of the South done with no violence -- you can say only, a lovely novel, with the firm brilliance of its writing to keep its loveliness from sticking to your fingers.
Long and Happy Life
Long and Happy Life,Reynolds Price,Scribner,068911947X,Bildungsromans,Fiction,Fiction - General,Literary,Mustian, Rosacoke (Fictitious,Mustian, Rosacoke (Fictitious character),North Carolina,Price, Reynolds - Prose & Criticism,Rural conditions,Young women,Fiction / General,Modern fiction
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