smith lee 1944 (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st. ed., 1st printing ; 267 pages ; 23 cm ; SIGNED byt author on title page ; ISBN 9780399142819, 0399142819 ; OCLC 36648648 ; LCCN 97011660 ; LOC No PS3569.M5376 N48 1997 ; steel grey and black cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: The Bubba stories -- Blue wedding -- Live bottomless -- The southern cross -- The happy memories club -- News of the spirit. ; In "Live Bottomless," thirteen-year-old Jenny tells the painful and hilarious tale of her philandering father's fall from grace and the family's subsequent trip to Keys West as her parents attempt a "geographical cure" for their troubled marriage. In "The Southern Cross," Chanel, a girl of easy virtue and dubious reputation, chronicles her cruise around the Caribbean with three Atlanta developers. "I may be old, but I'm not dead," begins Alice Scully, scandalizing her retirement-home writers' group in "The Happy Memories Club." And prim, old-maid Sarah is titillated by the housekeeper's horrific account of her daughter's "blue wedding.". --Source: Publisher ; Lee Smith is a novelist, short story writer, and educator. She was born in 1944 in Grundy, Virginia. Smith attended Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia. In her senior year at Hollins, Smith entered a Book-of-the-Month Club contest, submitting a draft of a novel called The Last Day the Dog Bushes Bloomed. The book, one of 12 entries to receive a fellowship, was published in 1968. Smith wrote reviews for local papers and continued to write short stories. Her first collection of short stories, Cakewalk, was published in 1981. Smith taught at North Carolina State University. Her novel, Oral History, published in 1983, ; FINE/FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st London edition ; 1st printing ; 315, [4] pages ; 25 cm ; SIGNED by author on title page ; ISBN 9780333492178, 9780399133824, 033349217X, 0399133828 ; OCLC 36077728 ; LOC No PS3569.M5376 F28 1989 ; First UK edition. originally published New York: Putnam's, 1988 ; blue cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; The story of Ivy Rowe, the heroine, is told through the letters she is forever writing to her friends and loved ones. Lee Smith's other novels include "Family Linen" and "Oral History". The author was the 1988 winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for literature. ; Lee Smith is a novelist, short story writer, and educator. She was born in 1944 in Grundy, Virginia. Smith attended Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia. In her senior year at Hollins, Smith entered a Book-of-the-Month Club contest, submitting a draft of a novel called The Last Day the Dog Bushes Bloomed. The book, one of 12 entries to receive a fellowship, was published in 1968. Smith wrote reviews for local papers and continued to write short stories. Her first collection of short stories, Cakewalk, was published in 1981. Smith taught at North Carolina State University.; FINE/FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 206 pages ; 23 cm ; SIGNED by author on the title page ; ISBN 9780399135071, 9780425271865, 0399135073, 0425271862 ; OCLC 20422750 ; LCCN 89027377 ; LOC No PS3569.M5376 M4 1990 ; mauve and orange cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: Bob, a dog -- Mom -- Life on the moon -- Tongues of fire -- Dreamers -- The interpretation of dreams -- Desire on Domino Island -- Intensive care -- Me and my baby view the eclipse. ; "Extremely powerful.Me and My Baby View the Eclipse is about striving and the secret nobility of people who live in a small-town American South. In these stories-thank heaven-not everything fits: they are loose, they are sometimes awkward, but just about every one shines with revelation and awe in the face of momentary greatness and tragedy.Nearly every one of these stories could move a reader to tears, for in almost every one of them there is a moment of vision, or love, or unclothed wonder that transforms something plain into something transcendent."-The New York Times Book Review ; Lee Smith was born in Grundy, VA. She is author of many novels, including the New York Times bestseller The Last Girls, and most recently Guests On Earth. She is a recipient of the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the North Carolina Award for Literature, and a Southern Book Critics Circle Award. ; FINE/FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book.