Due East
A Novel
Will be published approx. on 30. October 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-8101-2724-1 (ISBN)
Description
Mary Faith Rapple is smart, pretty in a rangy, grey-eyed sort of way-and very definitely pregnant. Not an unusual occurrence in the sleepy town of Due East, South Carolina. But when Mary faith announces that she will have a virgin birth and her father, Jesse Rapple, owner of the Plaid King filling station, vows to uncover the truth, the sparks begin to fly. Spirited, evocative, and utterly delightful, this brilliant novel by Valerie Sayers explores the love and loneliness, the hopes and fears, the unspoken yearnings of the human heart. Due East is a sweet and tender novel. Like Carson McCullers and Flannery O'Connor, Sayers writers with compassion of lonely characters whose lives are slightly off centre, and her best scenes have a fine sense, sharp edge of irony. Her chosen territory is the human heart.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
356 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8101-2724-1 (9780810127241)
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Person
Valerie Sayers was born and raised in Beaufort, South Carolina, USA which became the thinly disguised Due East of her fiction, and educated in New York, where she lived for many years. She is the author of six novels, including The Powers, her most recent. Her literary awards include a Pushcart Prize for fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship. A professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, USA where her students keep her hopping, she publishes stories, essays, and reviews widely.