The River to Pickle Beach
By Doris Betts
1972
First Published
3.09
Average Rating
413
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From Simon & Schuster, The River to Pickle Beach is Doris Betts' unforgettable novel about small town relation in the contemporary South. Award-winning novelist Doris Betts' 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, The River to Pickle Beach pulses with the reality of the contemporary South.
Avg Rating
3.09
Number of Ratings
55
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3 STARS
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Author
Doris Betts
Author · 8 books
Doris Betts (1932-2012), former Chancellor of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, wrote nine novels and three collections of short stories, including The Gentle Insurrection, The Sharp Teeth of Love, Souls Raised from the Dead, which won the Southern Book Award, and Beasts of the Southern Wild, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Betts taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for 35 years. She was a Guggenheim Fellow and received a medal from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
