Dimestore: A Writer's Life by Smith, Lee

Dimestore: A Writer's Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781616206468)

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Format: Paperback
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Dimestore: A Writer's Life by Smith, Lee

Dimestore: A Writer's Life

$15.95
Dimestore: A Writer's Life by Smith, Lee

Dimestore: A Writer's Life

$15.95
Format: 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.

Author: Lee Smith
ISBN-10: 1616206462
ISBN-13: 9781616206468
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Language: English
Published: 04/04/2017
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.70d
By Lee Smith
By Lee Smith
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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.

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