Ecstatically reviewed and winner of the William Faulkner Award for a notable first novel when it was published in A Long and Happy Life launched the career of Reynolds Price a writer considered to be one of our greatest novelists Harper LeeFrom its dazzling opening page which announced the appearance of a stylist of the first rank to its moving close this brief novel has charmed and captivated millions of readers since its original publication almost fifty years ago 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
