REYNOLDS PRICE—Roxanna Slade: A Novel—North Carolina—1st Ed HARDCOVER—VG+

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A First Edition, First Printing SIGNED* HARDCOVER of: • “ROXANNA SLADE: A Novel” (Scribner, 1998) (Hardcover, First Edition, First Printing) • BY REYNOLDS PRICE (1933-2011) *SIGNED by the Author in black ink on the Title Page. • ABOUT THIS TITLE: “Not since REYNOLDS PRICE’s award-winning, bestselling novel KATE VAIDEN has he told a woman’s story in her own voice. ROXANNA SLADE is this woman. ROXANNA begins her story on her twentieth birthday—a day that introduces her to the harsh realities of adulthood and changes the course of her life forever…. Her beguiling tale is one that boldly reflects the high and low moments in the development of the modern South and the nation as well as the inner strength of a woman possessed of a piercingly clear vision, forthright hungers and immense vitality.” —THE PUBLISHER • “What a privilege to sit down with this book and let ROXANNA SLADE’s wise, strong voice talk in your mind for a measure of hours about the profound consequence of ordinary lives.” —CHARLES FRAZIER • “PRICE knows all there is to know about the American South, and ROXANNA SLADE is what he knows. It’s a powerful book in its deceptive simplicity, vivid and particular. I loved it.”—ANNE RIVERS SIDDONS • “REYNOLDS PRICE may well be the dean of Southern writers.”—BARBARA HOLLIDAY, DETROIT FREE PRESS • “Reading REYNOLDS PRICE’s novel ROXANNA SLADE is like sitting through a long and languid North Carolina evening and listening to an intimate summing up of a hard life.”—RICHARD BERNSTEIN, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “A chronicler of decency, pluck and joy, in novel after novel [PRICE] has given us the weight and worth of the ordinary.”—JANET BURROWAY, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “ROXANNA SLADE is like sitting at the feet of the wisest, most engaging, truth-tellingest grandmother imaginable.... Here is language you can swim in, inhale, savor on the tip of your tongue.”—DIANA POSTLETHWAITE, WASHINGTON POST • “A lovingly detailed record of a long and seemingly modest life, given resonance by the prolific PRICE’s extraordinary language and his sharp eye for the subtle complexities of character…. ROXANA is a memorable figure, and further indication of PRICE’s quiet, precise power as a novelist.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS • “ROXANNA SLADE is a profoundly and provocatively hope-filled book—one might even say spiritual.... Masterful. Compelling.”—DAVID WEIGAND, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE • “A virtuoso performance...through ROXANNA’s voice PRICE demonstrates that he, more than any of his contemporaries, is indeed a singer of stories.”—JAMES SCHIFF, THE RALEIGHT NEWS & OBSERVER • “ROXANNA SLADE shows that in a world of deceit, a simple, good woman is something exceptional. She can tell a good story if you have the time to listen.”—ELLEN KANNER, MIAMI HERALD • “PRICE proves yet again why he is one of America’s most esteemed writers. His prose is rich and lyrical; his insights keen; his ability to slip inside the skin of his characters (especially women) astounding.”—POLLY PADDOCK GOSSETT, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER • “PRICE gives voice to one of his most fascinating characters yet, as ROXANNA—suspicious of the Church, yet deeply religious—reflects on the highs and lows of a long and more-or-less happy life.”—DAVID TEMPLETON, SONOMA COUNTY INDEPENDENT • “Many of the virtues that have endeared PRICE (KATE VAIDEN) to readers are present in this story of a North Carolina woman and several generations of her family. PRICE’s musically cadenced, nostalgia-washed prose, plangent with portent and loss and vibrant with imagery, is as beguiling as ever.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • “ROXANNA tells her life as a series of events, as time has taught her to remember them. She believes she and her life are fairly ordinary…. It is fairly wonderful to be reminded that an ordinary life has so much going on in it and that it turns out to be not ordinary at all.”—KATHLEEN GEORGE, PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE • “Every time somebody calls me a saint, I repeat my name and tell them no saint was ever named ROXY.”—OPENING SENTENCE, “ROXANNA SLADE” BY REYNOLDS PRICE • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “ROXANNA SLADE: A Novel” AUTHOR: REYNOLDS PRICE TYPE: HARDCOVER PAGES: 301 PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Scribner (New York), 1998 EDITION: First Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, this Number Row: “1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.” NOTE: This copy is NOT ex-library NOR a book-club edition. ISBN: 0-684-83292-5 CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS.The price (25.00) is unclipped. Corners & spine tips are ligthly rubbed. Edges have faint wear. Faint scratches & smudges (from normal handling) affect both sides of the DJ—but overall DJ is bright & clean. (Now protected in a Brodart archival cover.) CONDITION of BOOK ITSELF: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square. Spine is tight. Boards are clean & bright with faint discoloring along the bottom & top edges. Corners are fine. Spine tips are lightly rubbed. Endpapers & text-block edges are fine. Pages are bright & clean with no underlining, no doodling, no tears, no foxing, & no writing save for the author’s signature on the Title Page. Looks unread. THE AUTHOR REYNODS PRICE APPEARS: Appear, in black ink, on the Title Page. SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned and sturdy box. THANK YOU! ********************** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= “We believe it’s good business to be good to our customers.” *********** FLAPPINCAT’s HOUSE RULES ***********1. GENERAL TREATMENT. We enjoy treating FLAPPINCAT customers with honesty & respect & warmth because that’s how we like to be treated when we buy things on eBay.2. GENERAL ATTITUDE. 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