August Snow

Name: August Snow
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ISBN: 9780822200758

ISBN-10: 0822200759

ISBN-13: 9780822200758

Edition: N/A

Authors: Reynolds Price

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THE STORY: In August of 1937, in a small town in eastern North Carolina, we meet the Avery family. Roma Avery is the widowed matriarch who still maintains a hold on her recently married son, Neal. He and his wife, Taw, a former school teacher, rent a room from their friend, Genevieve Slappy, while Porter Farwell, Neal's boyhood friend, now lives in Roma's house. Both Neal and Porter work at the family store, Avery's Clothing. After the first year of marriage, which has seen them drift apart, Taw gives Neal an ultimatum. He must recommit with heart and soul to his marriage vows by ending the long nights he spends out drinking with Porter. He has until supper to abide by her wishes or she…

Book details

List price: $9.00
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/1/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.132
Language: English

Reynolds Price, the author of numerous volumes of fiction, poetry, memoir, plays, essays, & translation, has won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the William Faulkner Award, & the Levinson, Blumenthal, & Tietjans poetry awards. A member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters & a regular commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered", he lives in Durham, North Carolina.