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Author : Lee Smith
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2001
Conversations With Lee Smith written by Lee Smith and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
These interviews and profiles tell the story of one woman's discovery of her coal-mining hometown as a potential "literary place" and how she used them to pursue her dream career.
Dimestore
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Author : Lee Smith
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-03-22
Dimestore 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 2016-03-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“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.
Basic Training For Supervisors
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Author : M. Lee Smith Publishers, LLC
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
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Lee Smith
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Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2019-02-28
Lee Smith written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-28 with Social Science categories.
This literary companion surveys the works of Lee Smith, a Southern author lauded for her autobiographical familiarity with Appalachian settings and characters. Her dialogue captures the distinct voices of mountain people and their perceptions of local and world events, ranging from the Civil War to ecology and modernization. Mental and physical disability and the Southern cultural norm of including the disabled as both family and community members are recurring themes in Smith's writing. An A to Z arrangement of entries incorporates specific titles, and themes such as belonging, healing and death, humor, parenting and religion.
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.
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
Blue Marlin
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Author : Lee Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-04-21
Blue Marlin written by Lee Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-21 with categories.
On a patched-up family vacation to Key West, a young girl seeks out movie stars and redemption for her fractured family.
Voicing The Self
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Author : Carmen Rueda Ramos
language : en
Publisher: Universitat de València
Release Date : 2011-11-28
Voicing The Self written by Carmen Rueda Ramos and has been published by Universitat de València this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Este libro analiza la manera con la que Lee Smith ha dado voz a todos los aspectos de su experiencia tanto como mujer-artista que vive en la América contemporánea como nativa de la Appalachia, una región sureña que todavía conserva un fuerte sentimiento de la tradición oral y de vínculos con la comunidad. Smith revisa y altera el lenguaje y los mitos que han condicionado sus búsquedas de la identidad y han silenciado sus voces. Al realizarlo, explora la relación entre el heroísmo femenino y la creatividad de las mujeres como algo distinto a la de los hombres. En su lucha, las heroínas de Smith reflejan el desarrollo personal y artístico de la escritora. La relación conflictiva de sus personajes femeninos con la auto-afirmación y con el mundo de la Appalachia revela los propios sentimientos ambivalentes de Smith hacia el concepto de individualidad y hacia sus raíces culturales.
Secular Steeples 2nd Edition
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Author : Conrad Ostwalt
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-11-29
Secular Steeples 2nd Edition written by Conrad Ostwalt and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-29 with Social Science categories.
The Scandinavian [Nordic] countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland experienced the effects of the German invasion in April 1940 in very different ways. Collaboration, resistance, and co-belligerency were only some of the short-term consequences. Each country's historiography has undergone enormous changes in the seventy years since the invasion, and this collection by leading historians examines the immediate effects of Hitler's aggression as well as the long-term legacies for each country's self-image and national identity. The Scandinavian countries' war experience fundamentally changed how each nation functioned in the post-war world by altering political structures, the dynamics of their societies, the inter-relationships between the countries and the popular view of the wartime political and social responses to totalitarian threats. Hitler was no respecter of the rights of the Scandinavian nations but he and his associates dealt surprisingly differently with each of them. In the post-war period, this has caused problems of interpretation for political and cultural historians alike. Drawing on the latest research, this volume will be a welcome addition to the comparative histories of Scandinavia and the Second World War.