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Born in the small coal-mining town of Grundy, Virginia, Lee Smith began writing stories at the age of nine and selling them for a nickel apiece. Since then, she has written seventeen works of fiction, including Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, and, most recently, Guests on Earth. She has received many awards, including the North Carolina Award for Literature and an Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; her novel The Last Girls was a New York Times bestseller as well as winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina, with her husband, the writer Hal Crowther. Visit her at www.leesmith.com.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A memoir that shines with a bright spirit, a generous heart and an entertaining knack for celebrating absurdity.The New York Times Book ReviewThis is Smith at her finest.Library Journal, starred review Set deep in the mountains of Virginia, the Grundy of Lee Smiths youth was a place of coal miners, tent revivals, mountain music, drive-in theaters, and her daddys 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 Smiths fiction has always lived and breathed with the rhythms and people of the Appalachian South. But never before has she written her own story. Dimestores 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. Award-winning author Lee Smith's fiction has lived and breathed with the rhythms and people of the Appalachian South. Now she has written her own story in fifteen essays that are both a moving personal portrait and a testament to embracing ones heritage. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781616206468
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