The Family

New York: William Sloane, (1952).

Price: $225.00

Hardcover. First edition. Small owner name front fly, else fine in lightly worn, very good or a little better dustwrapper with some modest tanning to the spine, and shallow chipping at the crown. The only novel by an Auburn, Alabama novelist and dairy farmer who was a close personal friend of Flannery O'Connor. O'Connor's letters to Ivey are well represented in the collection *A Habit of Being*. Their similar experiences of southern farm life created a close sympathy between them. *The Family* was re-issued in the 1980s in the *Lost Alabama Classics* series.

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Item #75469 The Family. Caroline IVEY.