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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679445315
ISBN-139780679445319
eBay Product ID (ePID)1061934
Product Key Features
Book TitleQuite a Year for Plums : a Novel
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1998
TopicGeneral
GenreFiction
AuthorBailey White
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight12.3 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN97-041124
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"White will transport readers to that place where the language is languid, the bees hum . . . and everybody-- in a nice kind of way--is a little off-kilter." --San Francisco Chronicle "An enchanting work, as delicately stitched as a spider web." --The Philadelphia Inquirer "A novel of many perspectives. . . . On one level, Quite a Year for Plums is about chickens and peanut cultivars and pine- straw fires; on another, it's about art and impermanence and freedom." --The New York Times Book Review "Deliciously funny. . . . As tasty as a 12-egg poundcake, pungent as tea olive and crafty as a crow." --Atlanta Journal-Constitution From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisAnyone who has read the best-sellingMama Makes Up Her Mindor listened to Bailey White's commentaries on NPR knows that she is a storyteller of inimitable wit and charm. Now, in her stunningly accomplished first novel, she introduces us to the peculiar yet lovable people who inhabit a small town in south Georgia. Meet serious, studious Roger, the peanut pathologist and unlikely love object of half the town's women. Meet Roger's ex-mother-in-law, Louise, who teams up with an ardent typographer in an attempt to attract outer-space invaders with specific combinations of letters and numbers. And meet Della, the bird artist who captivates Roger with the sensible but enigmatic notes she leaves on things she throws away at the Dumpster ("This fan works, but it makes a clicking sound and will not oscillate"). Heartbreakingly tender, often hilarious,Quite a Year for Plumsis a delectable treat from a writer who has been called a national treasure.
LC Classification NumberPS3573.H452Q57 1998b
