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The RIVER TO PICKLE BEACH
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The RIVER TO PICKLE BEACH Paperback - 1996

by Doris Betts

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Award-winning novelist Doris Betts's probing look at life in a small North Carolina town richly evokes the summer of 1968. A moving, sometimes startling portrait of people grappling with change and their need for love, The River to Pickle Beach pulses with the reality of the contemporary South.

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From Simon & Schuster, The River to Pickle Beach is Doris Betts' unforgettable novel about small town relation in the contemporary South.Award-winning novelist Doris Betts's probing look at life in a small North Carolina town richly evokes the summer of 1968. A moving, sometimes startling portrait of people grappling with change and their need for love, The River to Pickle Beach pulses with the reality of the contemporary South.

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  • Title The RIVER TO PICKLE BEACH
  • Author Doris Betts
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Touchstone Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1996-11-20
  • ISBN 9780684818603 / 0684818604
  • Weight 1.18 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.86 x 0.98 in (21.59 x 14.88 x 2.49 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
    • Cultural Region: Deep South
    • Cultural Region: South Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Demographic Orientation: Rural
    • Demographic Orientation: Small Town
    • Geographic Orientation: North Carolina
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 96028808
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • New York Times, 11/24/1996, Page 32

About the author

Doris Betts is a short story writer, novelist, essayist and Alumni Distinguished Professor Emerita at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of three short story collections and six novels.

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