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Americana
Appalachia
Appalachian South
Author_Lee Smith
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Chapel Hill
coming of age
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Fair and Tender Ladies
grief
Grundy
literature
loss
memoir
North Carolina
nostalgia
novelist
On Agate Hill
parenting
personal essays
Southern
storytelling
The Last Girls
virginia
writer
writing
Product details
- ISBN 9781616206468
- Weight: 233g
- Dimensions: 138 x 208mm
- Publication Date: 04 Apr 2017
- Publisher: Workman Publishing
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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“A memoir that shines with a bright spirit, a generous heart and an entertaining knack for celebrating absurdity.”—The New York Times Book Review“This is Smith at her finest.”—Library Journal, starred review Set deep in the mountains of Virginia, the Grundy of Lee Smith’s youth was a place of coal miners, tent revivals, mountain music, drive-in theaters, and her daddy’s dimestore. When she was sent off to college to gain some “culture,” she understood that perhaps the richest culture she would ever know was the one she was leaving. Lee Smith’s fiction has always lived and breathed with the rhythms and people of the Appalachian South. But never before has she written her own story. Dimestore’s fifteen essays are crushingly honest, wise and perceptive, and superbly entertaining. Together, they create an inspiring story of the birth of a writer and a poignant look at a way of life that has all but vanished.
Lee Smith is the author of fourteen novels, including Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, Saving Grace, and Guests on Earth, as well as four collections of short stories, including Me and My Baby View the Eclipse and News of the Spirit. Her novel The Last Girls was a New York Times bestseller as well as a co-winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. A retired professor of English at North Carolina State University, she has received an Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the North Carolina Award for Literature, and the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Literature.
