Dimestore : a writer's life

Author

Lee Smith

Call Number

• 921 S6544 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2016.

Physical Description

xix, 202 pages ; 22 cm

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.

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.