Fair Day, And Another Step Begun (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st us ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Signed with inscription
A single summer day becomes a journey of quiet revelation in Katie Letcher Lyle's Fair Day, and Another Step Begun, a coming-of-age novel set against the vivid backdrop of a rural Virginia county fair. The story chronicles Ellen, a teenage girl navigating the charged, bittersweet terrain between adolescence and womanhood, as the sights, sounds, and encounters of one extraordinary day force her to confront questions of identity, independence, and desire. Lyle's prose is intimate and sensory, capturing the heat and bustle of the fairground with an authenticity that grounds the novel's emotional stakes in a richly observed Appalachian world. Lyle writes with a poet's economy and a storyteller's instinct for the telling detail, illuminating the universal experience of standing at life's threshold through the particular lens of Southern girlhood. The novel sits in a proud tradition of American regional fiction, drawing comparisons to the work of Carson McCullers in its sensitivity to the interior lives of young women on the cusp of change. A quiet, luminous book, it leaves the reader wondering whether Ellen — and we — are ever truly ready for the next step that awaits us.
Author: Katie Letcher Lyle
Format: Hardback
Published: 1974, J. B. Lippincott Company
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st us ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Signed with inscription
A single summer day becomes a journey of quiet revelation in Katie Letcher Lyle's Fair Day, and Another Step Begun, a coming-of-age novel set against the vivid backdrop of a rural Virginia county fair. The story chronicles Ellen, a teenage girl navigating the charged, bittersweet terrain between adolescence and womanhood, as the sights, sounds, and encounters of one extraordinary day force her to confront questions of identity, independence, and desire. Lyle's prose is intimate and sensory, capturing the heat and bustle of the fairground with an authenticity that grounds the novel's emotional stakes in a richly observed Appalachian world. Lyle writes with a poet's economy and a storyteller's instinct for the telling detail, illuminating the universal experience of standing at life's threshold through the particular lens of Southern girlhood. The novel sits in a proud tradition of American regional fiction, drawing comparisons to the work of Carson McCullers in its sensitivity to the interior lives of young women on the cusp of change. A quiet, luminous book, it leaves the reader wondering whether Ellen — and we — are ever truly ready for the next step that awaits us.