{"product_id":"charley-bland-mary-lee-settle-9781570031496","title":"Charley Bland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dissection of family existence at its most corrosive\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this moving and brilliant narrative of doomed love, Mary Lee Settle tells of a triangular affair set in the small town of Canona, West Virginia. The novel's narrator, a thirty-five-year-old widow and writer, returns from a self-imposed European exile to find her hometown much as she left it decades ago. One thing does change upon her arrival, however; she takes Charley Bland, Canona's most eligible bachelor and the object of her schoolgirl crush, as her lover. The third person in the profane trinity is Charley's mother, a woman who believes no female worthy of her son. Mrs. Bland serves to fuel the lovers' creativity as they arrange clandestine meetings. With trademark skill and wit, Settle spins a bittersweet story in which she artfully reveals the mores of Canona's closed, upper-class society and of its less prosperous underculture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Lee Settle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1570031495\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781570031496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/31\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.01h x 5.54w x 0.65d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/1997 pg. 108","brand":"Mary Lee Settle","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44068622041343,"sku":"9781570031496","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_27bb04fe-54c9-4d45-8180-5da78e4c32b3.jpg?v=1685420065","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/charley-bland-mary-lee-settle-9781570031496","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}