"CHR 1996." . . . . . . . . . . . . . "The river to Pickle Beach"@en . . "The river to Pickle Beach" . . . . . . "Fiction" . "\"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 ... [pulsing] with the reality of the contemporary South\"--Publisher." . . . "North Carolina" . . "Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)" . . "PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)" . .