{"product_id":"the-store-stribling","title":"The Store","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: T.S. Stribling\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Avon V-2046\u003cbr\u003eYear: 1960 Print: 1 Cover Price: $.75\u003cbr\u003eCondition: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintagebookseller.myshopify.com\/pages\/paperback-book-grading\" title=\"Book Grades\"\u003eBook Grades.\u003c\/a\u003e Very Good Minus. Light wear. \u003cbr\u003eGenre: Fiction\/History\u003cbr\u003ePages: 447\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e70126017E\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1933\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Pulitzer prize-winning \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Store\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the second novel of Stribling’s monumental trilogy set in the author’s native Tennessee Valley region of north Alabama. The action begins in 1884, the year in which Grover Cleveland became the first Democratic president since the end of the Civil War; and it centers about the emergence of a figure of wealth in the city of Florence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Store\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Stribling succeeds in presenting the essence of an age through the everyday lives of his characters. In the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, reviewer Robert M. Coates compared Stribling with Mark Twain in his ability to convey the “very life and movement” of a small Southern town: “Groups move chatting under the trees or stand loitering in the courthouse square, townsfolk gather at political ‘speakings’ and drift homeward separately afterward; always, in their doings, one has the sense of a whole community surrounding them, binding them together.” Gerald Bullet wrote in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Statesman and Nation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e that the novel “is a first-rate book…filled with diverse and vital characters; and much of it cannot be read without that primitive excitement, that eagerness to know what comes next, which is, after all, the triumph of the good story teller.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);' data-sfc-inited=\"2\" data-sfc-cb=\"aLfeH=\u0026amp;QH2O0e_0:aLfeH;ItcyCc=\u0026amp;QH2O0e_0:ItcyCc;bCcIof=\u0026amp;QH2O0e_0:bCcIof\" data-wiz-uids=\"QH2O0e_d,QH2O0e_b,QH2O0e_e,QH2O0e_c,QH2O0e_f\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" aria-hidden=\"false\" class=\"\" data-xid=\"m3fCN\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\u003c!--TgQPHdQH2O0e_0\/opG4zf|QH2O0e_a\/JnZUmf;QH2O0e_a\/BIayDf;QH2O0e_a\/EzCsIe|[{\u0026quot;s\u0026quot;:false,\u0026quot;i\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;QH2O0e_0\/opG4zf\u0026quot;}]--\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);' data-complete=\"true\" data-sfc-cb=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-sfc-cp=\"\"\u003e\u003c!--qkimaf QH2O0e_0\/WyzG9e--\u003e\u003c!--cqw1tb QH2O0e_0\/WyzG9e--\u003e\u003c!--qkimaf QH2O0e_0\/lC1IR--\u003e\u003c!--cqw1tb QH2O0e_0\/lC1IR--\u003e\u003c!--qkimaf QH2O0e_0\/Y6wv1e--\u003e\u003c!--cqw1tb QH2O0e_0\/Y6wv1e--\u003e\u003cspan data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);'\u003e\u003c!--qkimaf QH2O0e_0\/EZFthd--\u003e\u003c!--qkimaf QH2O0e_0\/nkGDxf--\u003e\u003c!--cqw1tb QH2O0e_0\/nkGDxf--\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vintagebookseller","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52262682788071,"sku":"70126017E","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/0537\/files\/img355_f4411400-2351-4682-b973-9080504d176b.jpg?v=1782790602","url":"https:\/\/vintagebookseller.myshopify.com\/products\/the-store-stribling","provider":"Vintage Bookseller ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}