| Description |
xix, 202 pages : illustration ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Preface: Raised to leave: some thoughts on "culture" -- Dimestore -- Recipe box -- Kindly nervous -- Lady lessons -- Marble cake and moonshine -- Big river -- On Lou's porch -- Lightning storm -- Driving Miss Daisy crazy, or, Losing the mind of the South -- Good-bye to the sunset man -- Blue heaven -- A life in books -- Angels passing -- The little locksmith. |
| Summary |
"Evenly divided between a book about Smith's process and her life, first as a Southern mountain child and, later, as the parent of a schizophrenic child, this book is interesting and compelling. Despite being surrounded by loving family and being blessed with an active imagination, Lee copes with a mentally ill mother. Later, her son's mental illness and early death brings her to the breaking point but she is saved by her writing. This is a read-alike for Karr's The Liars Club. It desperately needs a cinematic translation for it's elegant and evocative writing. -- Lois Gross for LibraryReads.,"--NoveList. |
| Subject |
Smith, Lee, 1944- -- Childhood and youth.
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Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Grundy (Va.) -- Biography.
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Grundy (Va.) -- Social life and customs.
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| Cover Title |
Dimestore : a writer's life |
| ISBN |
9781616205027 (hardcover) : $24.95 |
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1616205024 (hardcover) : $24.95 |
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