Daphne Athas—CHAPEL HILL IN PLAIN SIGHT—Notes From the Other Side of the Track

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A TRADE PAPERBACK (First Edition, First Printing) of: • “CHAPEL HILL IN PLAIN SIGHT:Notes From The Other Side Of The Tracks”(ENO PUBLISHERS, 2010) (TRADE PAPERBACK, First Edition, First Printing) • BY DAPHNE ATHAS (1923-2020) • “DAPHNE ATHAS experienced life in the legendary Southern college town of Chapel Hill. The town was conventional and idiosyncratic, both caught up in racial and class prejudice and ahead of its time. None of this liminal world, nor the effects on it of larger political and cultural forces, escapes ATHAS’s keen writer’s eye. Her personal life is woven through these essays. She writes of her friendships, her youthful adventures, her political revelations, her development as a writer. She retraces her early years in North Carolina, where she was considered an oddity. Hailing from a once-rich family that relocated from Brahmin Boston to a poor neighborhood on the edge of Chapel Hill after losing its fortune in the Depression, she was smart, sophisticated, well educated, and poor. That perspective from the other side of town sharpened her powers of observation, making her work penetrating and full of a sense of discovery. “ATHAS writes about her friendships and experiences with many well-known writers, among them RICHARD WRIGHT, PAUL GREEN, BETTY SMITH, and MAX STEELE. She tells of the political persecutions of AB ABERNATHY (Chapel Hill bookseller) and Junius Scales (the scion of a wealthy family) during the McCARTHY era. She reveals the true stories behind Chapel Hill’s haunted Gimghoul Castle and the murder of a 72-year-old coed. Her essays bring back to life a town making its way through a radically changing world.”—THE PUBLISHER • “The richness of vision in DAPHNE ATHAS’s fiction has led many of her readers to hope that we could someday read DAPHNE…speaking directly to us in DAPHNE’s own voice. Now…we have exactly that; and a joy it is to read.” —REYNOLDS PRICE • “DAPHNE ATHAS is the Oracle of Delphi transmigrated to Chapel Hill, spying on past, present, and future. This book is steeped in history, myth, and famous personalities in the era of the important college town’s transformation from genteel institution of higher learning into juggernaut of the New South’s mighty technocracy. ATHAS snatches the veil off racism, classism, politics, and VANITY FAIR-worthy scandals that haunt. This skilled novelist has the digging power of an ace reporter or top-notch historian and the story-telling verve of a language wizard. CHAPEL HILL IN PLAIN SIGHT is a book for all those interested in secrets hidden in plain view.” —RANDALL KENAN, “LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR DEAD,” ETC. • “In her beguiling reverie, DAPHNE ATHAS reveals that though in the Great Depression and later, Chapel Hill was something less than ‘the Southern part of heaven,’ it was also something more. Admirers of her remarkable novel, ENTERING EPHESUS, will treasure this book, while readers with no direct experience of Chapel Hill will be captivated by her tales of a phantasmagoric village of ‘lascivious trees’ where PAUL GREEN and BETTY SMITH dwell and, at any moment GERTRUDE STEING or AVA GARDNER might pop up.” —WILLIAM E. LEUCHTENBURG, “FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND THE NEW DEAL,” ETC. • “A lovely and readable series of true stories that made me feel at once young and old, now and then, and very much there in a bygone Chapel Hill/Carrboro. These are tales with wry humor and real characters, many of whom ATHAS has cheerfully, matter-of-factly raised from the dead as though they were never gone at all.” —LYDIA MILLET, “LOVE IN INFANT MONKEYS,” ETC. • “A fascinating cast of murderers, millworkers, writers, and revolutionaries in habit this riveting dissection of time, place memory, and myth. DAPHNE ATHAS’s steamrolling chronicle of the subversive and mostly forgotten history of the ‘Southern part of heaven’ puts both people and institutions in context, and yet the most admirable of its accomplishments is that it does so in wonder and respect. Every single syllable sings.” —MICHAEL PARKER, “HELLO DOWN THERE,” ETC. • “CHAPEL HILL IN PLAIN SIGHT, by DAPHNE ATHAS, captures intimate details of growing up in the Athens of the South. The book is a collection of essays originally published separately, one as early as the 1950s and the latest in the 1990s. ATHAS divides the text into sections, roughly in chronological order, but each essay can stand alone…. Although ATHAS talks about her own idiosyncratic Greek father and the trials her family endured to finally have a house of their own, she never intrudes upon the text. She acts as a guide, showing the reader the forgotten history of Chapel Hill firsthand. As much a poet as a historian, ATHAS’s language is full of metaphor and Greek mythology; you don’t so much read CHAPEL HILL IN PLAIN SIGHT as experience it.”—OUR STATE MAGAZINE • “There are so many things to like about CHAPEL HILL IN PLAIN SIGHT: NOTES FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS that I hardly know where to start.”—FOSTER CORBIN, AMAZON REVIEW • “Chapel Hill, with its abiding tendency to mythologize itself in rather sloppy fashion, has always needed a chronicler with dancing precision. And now, with DAPHNE ATHAS, it has that…. This is a book about place as spirit by a perpetual student for whom the definition of things and the uncanny rhythmical glory of words have never lost their erotic allure.”—WILL BLYTHE, FROM HIS FOREWORD • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “CHAPEL HILL IN PLAIN SIGHT: Notes from the Other Side of the Tracks” AUTHOR: DAPHNE ATHAS FOREWORD: WILL BYLTHE TYPE: TRADE PAPERBACK PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: ENO PUBLISHERS (Hillsborough, North Carolina), 2010 EDITION: FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING* *RE: (This book was not issued in hardcover.) On the Copyright Page, this Number Row: “10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.” NOTE: This book is NOT an ex-library copy. PAGES: 243+ ISBN: 978-0-9820771-3-9 CONDITION OF THE BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square & firm. Wraps are bright & clean with faint scratching. Corners are bumped. Spine is tight & uncreased with fine tips. Text-block edges & endpapers are fine. 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Price: 16.99 USD

Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina

End Time: 2024-11-05T12:10:37.000Z

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