The RIVER TO PICKLE BEACH [Paperback]

From Simon & Schuster,The River to Pickle Beachis Doris Betts' unforgettable novel about small town relation in the contemporary South.

Award-winning novelist Doris Betts's 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 Beachpulses with the reality of the contemporary South.Doris Betts is a short story writer, novelist, essayist and Alumni Distinguished Professor Emerita at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of three short story collections and six novels.