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A long and happy life : a novel

The story of Rosacroke Mustian, an intelligent, marriageable young girl, daughter of a working-class white family in a rural Southern community. Rosa, works patiently in a dull job as telephone operator. Mostly, she pines for the love of Wesley Beavers, whom she has adored from adolescence. Wesley is just discharged from the Navy and given, it seems, wholly to loose women and motorcycles, and to mutenss in regard to Rosacroke.

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  • "Long and happy life"
  • "Long and happy life"@pl

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  • "The story of Rosacroke Mustian, an intelligent, marriageable young girl, daughter of a working-class white family in a rural Southern community. Rosa, works patiently in a dull job as telephone operator. Mostly, she pines for the love of Wesley Beavers, whom she has adored from adolescence. Wesley is just discharged from the Navy and given, it seems, wholly to loose women and motorcycles, and to mutenss in regard to Rosacroke."@en
  • "Centers on the courtship of Rosacoke Mustian and Wesley Beavers."@en
  • "The troubled love story of Rosacoke (Rosa) Mustian and Wesley Beavers in rural North Carolina. Rosa works patiently in a dull job as telephone operator. Mostly, she pines for the love of Wesley Beavers, whom she has adored from adolescence. Wesley is just discharged from the Navy and given, it seems, wholly to loose women and motorcycles, and to muteness in regard to Rosacoke."
  • "On its initial publication in 1962, Eudora Welty said of A Long and Happy Life, "Reynolds Price is the most impressive new writer I've come across in a long time. His is a first-rate talent and we are lucky that he has started so young to write so well. Here is a fine novel." From its dazzling opening page, which announced the appearance of a stylist of the first rank, to its moving close, this brief novel has charmed and captivated millions of readers since its publication twenty-five years ago and its subsequent translation into fifteen languages. On the triumphant publication of Kate Vaiden, his most recent novel, in 1986, there was almost no review that -- praising the new book to the skies -- didn't also mention in glowing terms the reviewer's fond recollection of the marvelous first novel, the troubled love story of Rosacoke Mustian and Wesley Beavers and its beautifully evoked vision of rural North Carolina. It is a pleasure now to restore to print the clothbound edition of this truly enduring work as a companion volume to his brilliant book of essays, A Common Room, published simultaneously."@en
  • "The troubled love story of Rosacoke (Rosa) Mustian and Wesley Beavers in rural North Carolina."
  • "The troubled love story of Rosacoke (Rosa) Mustian and Wesley Beavers in rural North Carolina."@en

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  • "Advance copies (Printing)"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Authors' presentation copies (Provenance)"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Advance copies (Publishing)"@en
  • "Love stories"@en

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  • "Onnea ja pitkää ikää"@fi
  • "Una vida larga y feliz"
  • "Ein langes glückliches Leben Roman"
  • "Ett langt och lyckligt iiv; roman. [Översattning av Lily Vallquist]"
  • "A long and happy live"
  • "Ett långt och lyckligt liv : Roman"
  • "A long and happy life : a novel"
  • "A long and happy life : a novel"@en
  • "A long and happy life"@en
  • "A long and happy life"
  • "Ein langes, glückliches Leben Roman"
  • "Une vie longue et heureuse; roman"
  • "A long and happy life : [a novel]"
  • "A long and happy life : [a novel]"@en
  • "Ein langes glückliches Leben : Roman"
  • "Una Vida larga y feliz"
  • "Ein langes glückliches Leben; Roman. Deutsch von Margaret Sander"
  • "Długie szczęśliwe życie"
  • "Długie szczęśliwe życie"@pl
  • "Długie lata szczęścia"
  • "Długie lata szczęścia"@pl
  • "Onnea ja pitkää ikää. [Suomentanut Ritva Tiusanen]"
  • "A Long and happy life"
  • "A Long and happy life : Reynolds Price"
  • "A Long and Happy Life"@en
  • "Une vie longue et heureuse"
  • "Ein langes glückliches Leben"
  • "Ein langes glückliches Leben : Roman ; [Deutsch von Margaret Sander]"
  • "Ett långt och lyckligt liv : roman"@sv
  • "Une vie longue et heureuse : roman américain"

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