Cakewalk - Softcover

Smith, Lee

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345410424 ISBN 13: 9780345410429

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1996

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A first collection of short stories, marked by intimate detail and rich setting, features small-town southern characters whose full emotional lives have been textured by their upbringings and special livelihoods

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Review:

"The South has always been a special domain for women writers. Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, Harper Lee, and Katherine Ann Porter come immediately to mind. . . . Lee Smith, in this fine collection of short stories, joins in this tradition."--San Diego Union

"Cakewalk is great fun, its tales shrewdly observant of segments of North Carolina life."--Wall Street Journal

"Excellent...Beautiful portrayals...Dazzling."--Chicago Tribune

"Lee Smith strikes dead center the nerves of women's lives and does it with a grace and style that make her one of the writers to watch most closely."--Houston Post

"Smith has a perfect voice, incorporating hints of both refinement and shabbiness. Quite simply, excellent writing."--Booklist

About the Author:

Lee Smith is the author of sixteen works of fiction, including Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, and her recent collection of stories, Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger. Her many awards include 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 best seller as well as winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. Smith's latest novel is Guests on Earth.

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