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1) Oral history
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
Ballantine Books Trade paperback ed.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Oral History, the lyrical saga of a Virginia mountain family, follows four generations of Cantrells over more than a century. With each chapter, Lee Smith, a master of regional voices, adds another branch to a family tree that sings with secrets and sadness, beauty and joy. Researching an assignment for an Oral History course, Jennifer drives to the Virginia hills where her mother and father grew up. Raised by a stepmother, the young college student...
2) Blue Marlin
Author
Publisher
Blair
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
123 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Available for the first time as a stand-alone novella, this book centers on the Blue Marlin Motel in 1959, where Jenny, her beautiful socialite mother, and chastened father share their sunny days with movie stars who are in town to make the movie Operation Petticoat. Jenny is precocious and a bit of a sleuth, so her innocent "observations" to uncover the secrets of movie stars also end up revealing the secrets of her own family. Jenny confronts the...
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st trade ed.
Physical Desc
316 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Author of many novels and short stories, best-selling writer Lee Smith has received numerous awards for her works, including two O Henry Awards. Fair and Tender Ladies is an epistolary novel that traces the life of Ivy Rowe, born in the isolated Virginia mountain community of Sugar Fork. Through births and deaths, marriages and funerals, the decades of Ivy's life are captured in a rich dialect that carries the sounds and sights of the Appalachians...
4) Saving Grace
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Having justly earned her reputation as a master storyteller, Lee Smith's name evokes images of authentic country folk struggling through some of life's most arduous tests. Saving Grace adds a stunning spiritual dimension. The daughter of a snake-handling preacher who ignores the needs of his destitute family, Florida Grace doesn't think much of Jesus. He's the reason she's lived in squalor most of her life. He certainly doesn't keep her womanizing...
5) Dimestore
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xix, 202 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A "book about Smiths process and her life, first as a Southern mountain child and, later, as the parent of a schizophrenic child...Despite being surrounded by loving family and being blessed with an active imagination, Lee copes with a mentally ill mother. Later, her sons mental illness and early death brings her to the breaking point but she is saved by her writing"--Lois Gross for LibraryReads."--NoveList.
"For the inimitable Lee Smith, place is...
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
During the Napoleonic Wars, a British frigate, the HMS Surprise, and the larger French warship, Acheron, stalk each other off of the coast of South America. Lucky Jack, as he is referred to by his crew, is well regarded by his men, who trust him implicitly, even after the first devastating battle and an apparent personal vendetta against the French captain. The ship's surgeon balances the violence of his chosen life with the quiet demeanor of the...
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen (2.40:1) version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During the Napoleonic Wars, a British frigate, the HMS Surprise, and the larger French warship, Acheron, stalk each other off of the coast of South America. Lucky Jack, as he is referred to by his crew, is well regarded by his men who trust him implicitly even after the first devastating battle and an apparent personal vendetta against the French captain. The ship's surgeon balances the violence of his chosen life with the quiet demeanor of the scientist....
