Set in Due East, South Carolina, the lives of Becky Purdue, Marygail Dugan, Mary Faith, and a collection of other locals unfold as they struggle with temptation, adversity, and the powerful effect of the Catholic church
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"If William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County was a postage stamp of the South, then Valerie Sayers' fictional hamlet, Due East., S.C., is a microchip... brings to mind novelist Walker Percy and his Kierkegaardian leaps to faith.""- New York Daily News"
"If William Faulkner s Yoknapatawpha County was a postage stamp of the South, then Valerie Sayers fictional hamlet, Due East., S.C., is a microchip brings to mind novelist Walker Percy and his Kierkegaardian leaps to faith."" New York Daily News""
"If William Faulkner s Yoknapatawpha County was a postage stamp of the South, then Valerie Sayers fictional hamlet, Due East., S.C., is a microchip brings to mind novelist Walker Percy and his Kierkegaardian leaps to faith."" New York Daily News""
"If William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County was a postage stamp of the South, then Valerie Sayers' fictional hamlet, Due East., S.C., is a microchip... brings to mind novelist Walker Percy and his Kierkegaardian leaps to faith."- New York Daily News
Valerie Sayers was born and raised in Beaufort, South Carolina, USA which became the thinly disguised Due East of her fiction, and educated in New York, where she lived for many years. She is the author of six novels, including The Powers, her most recent. Her literary awards include a Pushcart Prize for fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship. A professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, USA where her students keep her hopping, she publishes stories, essays, and reviews widely.
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Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Set in Due East, South Carolina, the lives of Becky Purdue, Marygail Dugan, Mary Faith, and a collection of other locals unfold as they struggle with temptation, adversity, and the powerful effect of the Catholic church. ; 300 pages. Seller Inventory # 24025