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Black Mountain Breakdown
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Author : Lee Smith
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2012-03-06
Black Mountain Breakdown written by Lee Smith and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-06 with Fiction categories.
Crystal Spangler lives in rural Appalachia. She's the apple of her mother's eye -- not yet beautiful, but she will be. She's the most popular girl at Black Rock High. She makes cheerleader, gets good grades, and is elected beauty queen. Crystal discovers God, goes to college, and falls in love. When she comes home, she's disheveled and confused. Crystal becomes a wealthy politician's wife. But there's something calling her, drawing her back to where it all began, in the shadow of Black Mountain . . .
Layers Of Illusion As Seen In Lee Smith S Black Mountain Breakdown
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Author : Elaine J. O'Quinn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Layers Of Illusion As Seen In Lee Smith S Black Mountain Breakdown written by Elaine J. O'Quinn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with categories.
Chubs Spike Harry
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Author : Colin Stevens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Chubs Spike Harry written by Colin Stevens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Comic books, strips, etc categories.
Lee Smith S Use Of Point Of View In Oral History And Black Mountain Breakdown
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Author : Debbie Ames
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Lee Smith S Use Of Point Of View In Oral History And Black Mountain Breakdown written by Debbie Ames and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with categories.
Family Linen
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Author : Lee Smith
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-02-04
Family Linen written by Lee Smith and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-04 with Fiction categories.
"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, memory and forgetfulness, anger and forgiveness in a small Southern town. "Falls in line with the best of classical Southern fiction...but Ms. Smith's vision is her own and places her among the best of contemporary Southern writers." THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
Fair And Tender Ladies
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Author : Lee Smith
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2011-07-05
Fair And Tender Ladies written by Lee Smith and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-05 with Fiction categories.
"A tour de force." LOS ANGELES TIMES Ivy Rowe may not have much education, but her thoughts are classic, and her experiences are fascinating. Born near the turn of the century in the Virginia Mountains, Ivy's story is told completely through letters she is forever writing, and that you will forever want to read.... "Few readers will be dry-eyed as they watch this extraordinary woman disappear around that last bend in the road." CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Earl Scruggs And Foggy Mountain Breakdown
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Author : Thomas Goldsmith
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2019-09-30
Earl Scruggs And Foggy Mountain Breakdown written by Thomas Goldsmith and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-30 with Music categories.
Recorded in 1949, "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" changed the face of American music. Earl Scruggs's instrumental essentially transformed the folk culture that came before it while helping to energize bluegrass's entry into the mainstream in the 1960s. The song has become a gateway to bluegrass for musicians and fans alike as well as a happily inescapable track in film and television. Thomas Goldsmith explores the origins and influence of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" against the backdrop of Scruggs's legendary career. Interviews with Scruggs, his wife Louise, disciple Bela Fleck, and sidemen like Curly Seckler, Mac Wiseman, and Jerry Douglas shed light on topics like Scruggs's musical evolution and his working relationship with Bill Monroe. As Goldsmith shows, the captivating sound of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" helped bring back the banjo from obscurity and distinguished the low-key Scruggs as a principal figure in American acoustic music.Passionate and long overdue, Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown takes readers on an ear-opening journey into two minutes and forty-three seconds of heaven.
Understanding Lee Smith
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Author : Danielle N. Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2018-07-31
Understanding Lee Smith written by Danielle N. Johnson and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
A comprehensive treatment of the life and work of this award-winning feminist Appalachian writer Since the release of her first novel, The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed, in 1968, Lee Smith has published nearly twenty books, including novels, short stories, and memoirs. She has received an O. Henry Award, Sir Walter Raleigh Award, Robert Penn Warren Prize for Fiction, and a Reader's Digest Award; and her New York Times best-selling novel, The Last Girls, won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. While Smith has garnered academic and critical respect for many of her novels, such as Black Mountain Breakdown, Oral History, and Fair and Tender Ladies, her writing has been viewed by some as lightweight fiction or even "chick lit." In Understanding Lee Smith Danielle N. Johnson offers a comprehensive analysis of Smith's work, including her memoir, Dimestore, treating her as a major Appalachian and feminist voice. Johnson begins with a biographical sketch of Smith's upbringing in Appalachia, her formal education, and her career. She explicates the themes and stylistic qualities that have come to characterize Smith's writing and outlines the criticism of Smith's work, particularly that which focuses on female subjectivity, artistry, religion, history, and place in her fiction. Too often, Johnson argues, Smith's consistent and powerful messages about artistry, gender roles, and historical discourse are missed or undervalued by readers and critics caught up in her quirky characters and dialogue. In Understanding Lee Smith, Johnson offers an analysis of Smith's oeuvre chronologically to study her growth as a writer and to highlight major events in her career and the influence they had on her work, including a major shift in the early 1990s to writing about families, communities, and women living in the mountains. Johnson reveals how Smith has refined her talent for creating nuanced voices and a narrative web of multiple perspectives and evolved into a writer of fine literary fiction worthy of critical study.
Oral History
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Author : Lee Smith
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2011-12-06
Oral History written by Lee Smith and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-06 with Fiction categories.
"The best novel so far by a writer whose growth has been steady and sure . . . . [Oral History] tells the story of the Cantrell family and the odd curse that its members believe to have hung over them. It is a tale that begins in the late 19th century with Granny Younger, the midwife, and continues well into the 20th century through several generations of Cantrells; it is also a tale deeply rooted in the folk culture of the Appalachians, a tale that in the best tradition of folklore contains 'story upon story.'" -- The Washington Post Book World "A novel as dark, winding, complicated as the hill country itself. . . You could make comparisons to Faulkner and Carson McCullers, to The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Wuthering Heights. You could employ all those familiar ringing terms of praise: 'rare,' 'brilliant,' 'unforgettable.' But Lee Smith and Oral History make you wish all those phrases were fresh and new, that all those comparisons had never before been made. For this is a novel deserving of unique praise." -- The Village Voice "Deft and assured . . . She is clearly drunk on the language of Appalachia, on its stories and its people . . . . She is nothing less than masterly." -- The New York Times Book Review
The Last Girls
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Author : Lee Smith
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2002-08-12
The Last Girls written by Lee Smith and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-12 with Fiction categories.
On a beautiful June day in 1965, a dozen girls-classmates at a picturesque Blue Ridge women's college-launched their homemade raft (inspired by Huck Finn's) on a trip down the Mississippi. It's Girls A-Go-Go Down the Mississippi read the headline in the Paducah, Kentucky, paper. Thirty-five years later, four of those "girls" reunite to cruise the river again. This time it's on the luxury steamboat, The Belle of Natchez, and there's no publicity. This time, when they reach New Orleans, they'll give the river the ashes of a fifth rafter-beautiful Margaret ("Baby") Ballou. Revered for her powerful female characters, here Lee Smith tells a brilliantly authoritative story of how college pals who grew up in an era when they were still called "girls" have negotiated life as "women." Harriet Holding is a hesitant teacher who has never married (she can't explain why, even to herself). Courtney Gray struggles to step away from her Southern Living-style life. Catherine Wilson, a sculptor, is suffocating in her happy third marriage. Anna Todd is a world-famous romance novelist escaping her own tragedies through her fiction. And finally there is Baby, the girl they come to bury-along with their memories of her rebellions and betrayals. THE LAST GIRLS is wonderful reading. It's also wonderfully revealing of women's lives-of the idea of romance, of the relevance of past to present, of memory and desire.