A Short History of a Small Place

A Short History of a Small Place

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author = T. R. Pearson
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Simon & Schuster
pub_date = 1985
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media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 381 pp
isbn = ISBN 0671543520
oclc = 11599872
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followed_by = Off for the Sweet Hereafter

A Short History of a Small Place is a 1985 novel by T. R. Pearson. Set in the fictional town of Neely, North Carolina, it tells, in a rambling and digressive manner, about the life and eventual suicide of the town's only aristocratic woman, Miss Myra Angelique Pettigrew.


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