| Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger Contributor(s): Smith, Lee (Author) |
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ISBN: 1616200499 ISBN-13: 9781616200497 Publisher: Algonquin Books OUR PRICE: $11.86 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2011 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 5.51" W x 8.26" (0.78 lbs) 368 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Lee Smith is a teller of tales for tale tellers to admire and envy . . . [and] a reader's dream (Houston Chronicle). A celebrated and bestselling writer with a dozen novels under her name, including Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, and The Last Girls, she is just as widely recognized for her exceptional short stories. Here, in Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger, Smith collects seven brand-new stories along with seven of her favorites from three earlier collections. The result? A book of dazzling richness. As the New York Times Book Review put it, In al- most every one of [her stories] there is a moment of vision, or love, or unclothed wonder that transforms something plain into something transcendent. |
Contributor Bio(s): Smith, Lee: - Born in the small coal-mining town of Grundy, Virginia, Lee Smith began writing stories at the age of nine and selling them for a nickel apiece. Since then, she has written seventeen works of fiction, including Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, and, most recently, Guests on Earth. She has received many awards, including the North Carolina Award for Literature and an Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; her novel The Last Girls was a New York Times bestseller as well as winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina, with her husband, the writer Hal Crowther. Visit her at www.leesmith.com. |