A Short History of a Small Place
Published on 30. September 2003
384 pages
978-1-101-12693-6 (ISBN)
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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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A Short History of a Small Place
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09/2003
Penguin USA
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T. R. Pearson is the author of eight novels, including Polar and Blue Ridge, a New York Times Notable Book.
