Nominating Rain on the Just for the 1936 Pulitzer Prize, Ray Erwin of the Char lotte Observer wrote, "This is the finest novel produced in North Carolina in this generation, and I don't remember any of past generations that measures up to it." But Mrs. Morehouse was an outsider (Massachusetts), and many of her neigh bors, affronted by the novel of "Least Dolly Allen" and the folk around Hang ing Dog Creek, suggested "hanging Massachusetts witches." This novel preserves the language and the folkways of the mountain ...
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Nominating Rain on the Just for the 1936 Pulitzer Prize, Ray Erwin of the Char lotte Observer wrote, "This is the finest novel produced in North Carolina in this generation, and I don't remember any of past generations that measures up to it." But Mrs. Morehouse was an outsider (Massachusetts), and many of her neigh bors, affronted by the novel of "Least Dolly Allen" and the folk around Hang ing Dog Creek, suggested "hanging Massachusetts witches." This novel preserves the language and the folkways of the mountain natives: Least Dolly Allen, Bilow Bumgarner, Click Winkler, Trealy Sexton, Rance Drake, Tedroe Jarvis, and others. These people provide the focus of this ballad-like story set in the foothills of the Caro lina Blue Ridge. Of Mrs. Morehouse's power as a novelist, Edwin Granberry of the New York Sun wrote: "The reader is made to feel chagrin at his lack of charity toward the sinner, embarrass ment at his failure to foresee the wicked ness of the good. This is character por trayal of a high order."
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Add this copy of Rain on the Just to cart. $45.98, like new condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1980 by Southern Illinois University Press.
Add this copy of Rain on the Just (Lost American Fiction) to cart. $88.99, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1980 by Southern Illinois University P.
Add this copy of Rain on the Just to cart. $90.00, very good condition, Sold by Row by Row Bookshop rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sugar Grove, NC, UNITED STATES, published 1980 by Southern Illinois University Press.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Inscribed by Author(s) Second Printing. Signed. A Very Good or better copy in gray cloth of the second printing of the second edition, in a price-clipped Very Good dust jacket with light wear at the spine tip. Mild tanning at the top edge of the text block, clean/unmarked within, with little cover wear. Nice full-page inscription signed by the author at the front endpaper, and also signed by the author at the title page. (Not ex-library. )
Add this copy of Rain on the Just to cart. $450.00, very good condition, Sold by Burnside Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1936 by Lee Furman, Inc.
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Very Good. First edition. 319 pp. Maroon pebbled cloth decorated in yellow. Near Fine in basically Very Good unclipped dust jacket with vertical creases in front, side, and rear panel; chipping at head and along top of back panel, which is also rubbed. Light wear to tips, offsetting to endpapers. A novel of rural North Carolina labeled "Not for the squeamish" by Kirkus Reviews. It was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and was rediscovered and reprinted in the great Lost American Fiction series over four decades later. The author's first novel, scarce in its original jacket.
