kay terry scheick william (3 risultati)

vg+ soft cover, bright & tight copy. later printing edition. Binding is paper covers.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st paperback edition, 1st printing ; viii, 337 pages ; 22 cm ; SIGNED presentation by author on title page ; ISBN 9780820329611, 0820329614 ; OCLC 76801795 ; LCCN 2006039281 ; LOC No PS3561.A885 Y44 2007 ; "Brown thrasher books."; color pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; First published in 1976, "The Year the Lights Came On" was Terry Kay's debut novel. Revolving around the electrification of rural northeast Georgia shortly after the end of World War II, the novel has become a classic coming-of-age story. Kay, now an acclaimed writer with an international following, has reread the novel with the eyes of a seasoned storyteller. Cutting here and adding there, Kay has rewritten "The Year the Lights Came On" to enrich an already highly comical and poignant work. "--Source: Publisher ; Terry Kay was born February 10, 1938 in Royston, Georgia. He grew up there and became a well-known novelist. Perhaps his most well-known book is To Dance with the White Dog, which was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy in 1983. He is also the author of such best-selling works as Dark Thirty, Shadow Song, After Eli, and The Runaway, which was adapted for the screen. He won an Emmy for his screenplay Run Down the Rabbit. Kay's novel The Valley of Light won the 2004 Townsend Prize for Fiction and was also adapted for the screen. He won the 1981 Georgia Author of the Year Award for After Eli, and the Southeastern Library Association named him Outstanding Author of the Year in 1991 for To Dance with the White Dog. He published The Book of Marie in 2007. His last book, The Forever Wish of Middy Sweet, was published in August 2020. Terry Kay died on December 12, 2020 at the age of 82. ; Signed by Author(s). Book.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. revised ed edition. 337 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.