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Marvelously funny, bittersweet, and beautifully evocative, the original publication of A Short History of a Small Place announced the arrival of one of our great Southern voices. Although T. R. Pearsons Neely, North Carolina, doesnt appear on any map of the state, it has already earned a secure place on the literary landscape of the South. In this introduction to Neely, the young narrator, Louis Benfield, recounts the tragic last days of Miss Myra Angelique Pettigrew, a local spinster and former town belle who, after years of total seclusion, returns flamboyantly to public view-with her pet monkey, Mr. Britches. Here is a teeming human comedy inhabited by some of the most eccentric and endearing characters ever encountered in literature.
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Praise for T. R. Pearsons A Short History of a Small Place
Neely is a speck on the map in North Carolina, and the narrator is Louis Benfield, a youth not a wry as Holden Caufield, but certainly as observant, and with a bigger, even sadder heart ... a remarkably funny book ... more than an impressive debut; it is an accomplishment.
The New York Times
T. R. Pearsons charming, undauntable first novel is about human decency: the unrecognized variety that cures insomnia and occasionally insures a ticket to heaven.... Theres an archaic heartfelt element to A Short Hutory-disarmingly kind and unabashedly funnythat rings of the essence of the Southern tradition of literature.... But then the people of the town dont die, they succumb; they have relations instead of sex; and they hold silent counsel when a less complicated soul would just sit and think a spell. It is this charming deference to languageto regional homilies and, consequently, to truththat gives the novel its freedom and compassion: the sense of lying on a hot porch in the afternoon and listening to someone special and very, very wise. There are less levelheaded educations to be had in the world than sitting captive at this fathers Knee.
-The Boston Globe
Pearsons is a different and distinctive voice and a most welcome one. In this novel his talent shows sparks of genius.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
T. R. Pearson has a perfectly pitched comic voice that transforms the humblest daily activities into the zaniest and most significant events.
-Newsday
There are several enchanting characters: Benfields mother washes dishes whenever she is upset and gets so depressed in February that her husband has to take her out to dinner at the Holiday Inn. The first loud belly laugh hits on page 18, and funny stuff comes with great regularity after that.
People
Like an inspired organist barreling through the point and counterpoint of a baroque fugue, T R. Pearson of North Carolina pulls out the stops on this, his exuberant first novel. Looking for humor? Lordy, does he give you humor, the kind you want to read aloud to somebody. Interested in irony and a deft handling of regional vernacular? He gives you that also in satisfying proportion.... So do yourself a favor and pack this one into your vacation bag.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Begs to be read aloud. It has that oral quality and ballad rhythm that winds and repeats refrains and rolls out like old hymns in a country church with a pump organ background.... Its fun and funny and youll laugh aloud a lot.... Pearson obviously is one of those writers on whom nothing is ever lost.
The Columbra State (South Carolina)
Pull up a chair, pour yourself a tall drink, and take the phone off the hookT. R. Pearsons remarkable first novel will take you hostage for a day.... A triumph. Pearson takes the ordinary and makes it extraordinary, and in so doing establishes himself as a major new Southern novelist.
The Rrchmond News Leader (Virginia)
As a Tarheel myself, I take warm, proud, and chuckling pleasure in welcoming Tom Pearson into the rambunctious mead hall of North Carolina writers. He is a young novelist of capacious giftsa good ear, a large heart, and a tireless imagination. Like Lee Smith, hes stepping into the venerable line of the best tall tale tellers of Southern oral history. A Short History of a Small Place is both outrageously funny and touching, as it reminds us, yes, you can go home again, and Lord, what a wonderfully peculiar place home is.
Michael Malone
T. R. Pearson writes laugh-out-loud comedy with a poets touch. He is a master of the rhythms of Southern speech.... May well become one of this centurys superstars of fiction.Olive Ann Burns
I adored A Short History of a Small Place and I am sure it will have a long history in a lot of places. Rich in character and strong of plot, Tom Pearsons first novel is a glorious accomplishment. Even better, its fun to read.
Rita Mae Brown
Tom Pearson has dealt a magnificent literary full house. What a voice! What a view! The whole book is a sort of austere riot. I loved it!Barry Hannah
T. R. Pearsons well-paced novel is a readable, off-hand, informal, unpretentious story of a likeable small town Southern family ingeniously told with keen insight and uncontrived humor. Good reading!Erskine Caldwell
A Short History of a Small Place is a rare reading experienceemotion and humor are stirred on almost every page. As long as T. R. Pearson is writing and I predict he will write and write, the fine art of Southern storytelling cannot die.Eugenia Price
A Short History of a Small Place is Tristram Shandy rediscovered In North Carolina, still chatting like Scheherazade. T. R. Pearson has built a machine of original sounds that is driven by passion and secrets.
John Calvin Batchelor
T. R. Pearson spent time toiling as a house painter while working at his craft. On the evidence of his first novel, let me suggest that those who once hired him to paint their walls beseech him to hurry back and sign them.
Gordon Lish
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A SHORT HISTORY OF A SMALL PLACE
T. R. Pearsons eight widely acclaimed novels include Cry Me a River, Blue Ridge, and Polar. He lives in Virginia.
For
Momma and Daddy
and
Beezy Boo
Momma and Daddy
and
Beezy Boo
This edition is dedicated
to the memory of
Chris Cox
to the memory of
Chris Cox
Daddy
DADDY SAID it was a bedsheet, a fitted bedsheet, and he said she was wearing it up on her shoulders like a cape with two of the corners knotted around her neck. She was standing barefoot on an oak stump, he said, standing on the one nearest the front walk where there was ordinarily a clay pot of geraniums, and he said her hair was mostly braided and bunned up in the back but for some few squirrel-colored strands of it that had worked their way loose and hung kind of wild and scraggly down across her forehead and almost to her nose. She was talking, he said. Then he stopped himself and creased the newspaper twice and put it in his lap, and he changed it to ranting, full-fledged bad-planking-in-the-attic ranting. It was something about Creon, he said, something about Creon and the stink of corpses.
Momma came from out of the kitchen and stood there in the doorway of what Daddy called the sitting room where he had his chair, his magazine hamper and his RCA television, and where Momma kept her drop-leaf maple table which none of us had ever eaten from, not even at Christmas, and which was cluttered up with three shoe boxes, Grandma Younts crystal punch bowl, an assortment of odd-sized fliers from the A&P and the Big Apple, and a set of decorative scales that had mysteriously struck a balance between the one pan full of rubber grapes and waxed bananas and the other containing a forty-watt light bulb, eight cents in pennies, and three unrelated buttons. Momma crossed her arms over her apron bib and worked the small of her back against the edge of the doorframe. Daddy drew a Tareyton out of the pack in his shirtpocket and looked straight at me and talked straight at Momma and said, Madness.
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