A Long and Happy Life
Reynolds Price
The troubled love story of pretty, headstrong Rosacoke Mustian and the motorcycle-riding, stoic Wesley Beavers, A Long and Happy Life beautifully evokes a rural North Carolina now long gone.
Read Time: ~5.1 hr
The Reivers
by William Faulkner (1962)
About this book
The adventures of a Mississippi innocent who, with two older friends, "borrows" his grandfather's automobile one day in 1905 and heads for Memphis.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraLate 20th Century
Protagonist / CoreNotable Characters
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