News of the Spirit (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
 Amazon.com Review: The warmhearted Southern women who narrate Lee Smith's latest collection of short stories share oddball sensibilities and an irrepressible urge to tell all. In fact, they are the friendliest, most garrulous bunch of liars, posers, and [... more]
$13.95
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The Christmas Letters
What a great book for Christmas Reading: I received this book as a pre-Christmas book many years ago and have just finished reading it for maybe the fifth time just before Christmas. It is a very quick and engaging read. The Christmas Letters recounts [... more]
$9.95
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Saving Grace
Riviting tale about a bizarre Southern subculture.: Saving Grace by Lee Smith is the tale of Grace Shepherd, a woman whose life is largely defined by two Southern primitive Christian ministers--Virgil Shepherd, her egomaniacal, sociopath philandering [... more]
$13.95
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The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed (Voices of the South)
Very good novel and excellent for teaching Freshman English: Ms. Smith's novel is written in first person; the narrator, Susan, is a young girl who is unknowingly witnessing the disintegration of her family and is just beginning to experience adolescence. [... more]
$17.95
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Black Mountain Breakdown
A Book So Haunting I Had to Experience it More than Once.: Smith's character Crystal Spangler is many things, but boring is not one of them. My first reading of this story, I felt a lot like the reviewers here who didn't like the book. The strange thing [... more]
$13.95
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Oral History
A piece of Appalachia: This is the only Lee Smith book I've read, so comparisons with other Smith books are impossible. The story traces the history of an Appalachian family from the late 19th century to the late-mid 20th century. It is told from various [... more]
$13.95
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Conversations with Lee Smith (Literary Conversations Series)
Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9781578063499 ISBN: 1578063493 Number Of Pages: 195 Publication Date: 2001-06-01 [... more]
$50.00
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On Agate Hill
Book Description: A dusty box discovered in the wreckage of a North Carolina plantation house contains the remnants of an extraordinary life: an 1870s diary of a young girl, letters, poems, songs, newspaper clippings, court records, marbles, rocks, dolls, [... more]
$39.99
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The Christmas Letters
What a great book for Christmas Reading: I received this book as a pre-Christmas book many years ago and have just finished reading it for maybe the fifth time just before Christmas. It is a very quick and engaging read. The Christmas Letters recounts [... more]
$12.95
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On Agate Hill: A Novel
Book Description: A dusty box discovered in the wreckage of a North Carolina plantation house contains the remnants of an extraordinary life: an 1870s diary of a young girl, letters, poems, songs, newspaper clippings, court records, marbles, rocks, dolls, [... more]
$24.95
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On Agate Hill: A Novel
Book Description: A dusty box discovered in the wreckage of a North Carolina plantation house contains the remnants of an extraordinary life: an 1870s diary of a young girl, letters, poems, songs, newspaper clippings, court records, marbles, rocks, dolls, [... more]
$13.95
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Me and My Baby View the Eclipse
Tongues Of Fire: Tongues Of Fire is one my favorite short stories. This book is also available on cassette tape so if you can check it out at your library. I fell in love with Karen a young girl growing up in the south with a mentally ill father and a [... more]
$15.00
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