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Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger (2010)
by Lee Smith
A celebrated novelist, Lee Smith is likewise recognized as a master of the short story and has been compared with such luminaries as Katherine Ann Porter, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O’Connor. Now she collects fourteen stories—seven brand-new ones along with seven favorites from her three earlier... (learn more about this book)
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On Agate Hill (2006)
by Lee Smith
Molly Petree, orphaned by the Civil War, is by her own definition "a spitfire and a burden. I do not care. My family is a dead family, and this is not my home, for I am a refugee girl." Raised in the ruins of a once prosperous plantation on Agate Hill in North Carolina, she's a refugee who has... (learn more about this book)
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The Last Girls (2003)
by Lee Smith
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LEE SMITH Author of News of the Spirit THE LAST GIRLS A Novel “Wise and insightful . . . The Last Girls deserves to be shared, pondered, and treasured.” – The Dallas Morning News “<A> GENIAL, THOUGHTFUL, FUNNY NOVEL, WRITTEN WITH THE WIT AND... (learn more about this book)
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Oral History (1996)
by Lee Smith
"Delightful and entertaining." PEOPLE When Jennifer, a college student, returns to her childhood home of Hoot Owl Holler with a tape recorder, the tales of murder and suicide, incest and blood ties, bring to life a vibrant story of a doomed family that still refuses to give up.... "Deft and... (learn more about this book)
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The Christmas Letters (1996)
by Lee Smith
A funny and evocative story introduces three generations of women who partake in the great American tradition of catching up on family news every Christmas by reading the vivid, gossipy letters from Birdy, Mary, and Melanie, who are all storytellers at heart. Tour. (learn more about this book)
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Saving Grace (1995)
by Lee Smith
"LUCID IN EXECUTION, BREATHTAKING IN SCOPE AND HEART-RENDING IN EFFECT--A REDEMPTIVE WORK OF ART. . . . Lee Smith has done more than write another novel about the South. She has broken through the grotesque surface to the underground spring, the music of Scrabble Creek, and the effect is... (learn more about this book)
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We don't love with our teeth (1994)
by Lee Smith
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Devil's Dream (1992)
by Lee Smith
"She writes lyric, luminous prose; her craft is so strong it becomes transparent, and, like the best of storytellers, she knows how to get out of the way so that the story can tell itself." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Moses Bailey, a preacher's son, forbade his fiddle-loving wife Kate Malone to play.... (learn more about this book)
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Fair and Tender Ladies (1988)
by Lee Smith
"This is about a moving a work of literature as has ever been written." ANNIE DILLARD The story of Ivy Rowe, spanning almost a century in the Virginia backwoods, is told completely through the letters that Ivy never stops writing over the course of her long and varied life. A remarkable portrait... (learn more about this book)
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Family Linen (1985)
by Lee Smith
"Brilliant, haunting, dark, joyous, remarkably compelling...immensely difficult to put down...a master storyteller." THE VILLAGE VOICE A childhood memory re-experienced, a funeral that brings about a family reunion, and the excavation of a swimming pool on the site of an old well, uncover... (learn more about this book)
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