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A novel about the real American small town of today. Not horse-trading deacons and pink romance in sunbonnets, but farmline telephones, Fords, land-deals, the movies, and trips to the metropolis or Los Angeles—and Respectability like a vast wall shutting out gaiety and wonder. Carol Kennicott comes from the city, where she has been happily inconspicuous, to the fish-bowl existence of the small town doctor's wife. She is young, eager, aware of the great world, fighting for graciousness and laughter. Her struggle—suffusing village commonplaceness with the beauty of high courage and the unconquerable will to live. Then her bewildered discovery of love. A revealing picture of the American scene, by far the most important novel by the author of "The Job." No part of it has appeared in any magazine.