New York: Random House, 1983. dj. Hardcover - Southern author's first book, set in a small tobacco farming community in North Carolina in 1937. A classic story of what happens when a handsome stranger comes to town, this is freshly told, and vivildy atmospheric. In her review, Eudora Welty called Shivers 'richly endowed and sure of her way.'. ISBN: 0-394-523881.