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Family Linen
 

Family Linen

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 family secrets and air the dirty linen in this behind-the-scenes look at life and family,... (read more)

Top tags: fiction,  southern,  contemporary fiction,  appalachian,  virginia (all tags)

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booklady
  • Rated 5 stars

“My first book by Lee Smith, it won't be my last. Very enjoyable and great characters. Southern fiction will get me every time.”

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  • Rated 3.538461 stars
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  • Rated 4 stars
  

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  • uplandpoet

    uplandpoet said:

    “well, first lady, she might have some competition for that title, but i do enjoy her books, so far, though my wife read Last Girls, i think, and was not happy with her at all.... Are you saying a fisrt lady or the premire southern female writer and do you meaning living or all time? big fan, just think of Eudora Welty and Harper Lee first...”

    posted Wednesday, August 1 2007
  • uplandpoet

    uplandpoet said:

    “Anybody else see a trend here? Dogbushes is obviously overwhelmingly influenced by Mockingbird, and now I am almosrt through Family Linen, if she didn't have The Sound and Fury at least in her subconcious when she wrote it, I would be shocked! Good, for the most part, but a little long in places. She is now Harper Lee or William Faulkner, but then, who is?”

    posted Monday, July 30 2007
  • uplandpoet

    uplandpoet said:

    “Wow! Read The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed a while back and have been looking forward to getting another dose of Lee Smith. Just picked up my unabridged audio book at the library today. about a 1/5 of the way through already. Almost as good as the Dogbushes!!!”

    posted Wednesday, July 25 2007
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