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Dimestore / Lee Smith.

Dimestore : (cover title)
Dime store (other title)
Smith, Lee, 1944- (author.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781616205027
  • ISBN: 1616205024
  • Physical Description: xix, 202 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2016.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject:
Smith, Lee, 1944- > Childhood and youth.
Novelists, American > 20th century > Biography.
Grundy (Va.) > Biography.
Grundy (Va.) > Social life and customs.
Genre:
Autobiographies.

Available copies

  • 85 of 88 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 88 total copies.
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