The Store
Thomas S. Stribling
(Author)
Randy K. Cross
(Introduction by)
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Description
The Pulitzer prize-winning The Store is the second novel of Stribling's monumental trilogy set in the author's native Tennessee Valley region of north Alabama. The action begins in 1884, the year in which Grover Cleveland became the first Democratic president since the end of the Civil War; and it centers about the emergence of a figure of wealth in the city of Florence.
In The Store, Stribling succeeds in presenting the essence of an age through the everyday lives of his characters. In the New Yorker, reviewer Robert M. Coates compared Stribling with Mark Twain in his ability to convey the "very life and movement" of a small Southern town: "Groups move chatting under the trees or stand loitering in the courthouse square, townsfolk gather at political 'speakings' and drift homeward separately afterward; always, in their doings, one has the sense of a whole community surrounding them, binding them together." Gerald Bullet wrote in The New Statesman and Nation that the novel "is a first-rate book...filled with diverse and vital characters; and much of it cannot be read without that primitive excitement, that eagerness to know what comes next, which is, after all, the triumph of the good story teller."Product Details
Price
$45.94
Publisher
University Alabama Press
Publish Date
August 30, 1985
Pages
592
Dimensions
5.44 X 8.27 X 1.7 inches | 0.02 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780817302511
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Randy K. Cross is on the English faculty at John C. Calhoun State College in Decatur, Alabama.