Me and My Baby View the Eclipse
Language: English
Published by Ballantine Books, 1997
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- Title
- Me and My Baby View the Eclipse
- Author
- Smith, Lee
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0345419103
- ISBN 13
- 9780345419101
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
Remarkable Lee Smith is a Southern storyteller in the very best tradition, combining an unmistakable voice with an infallible sense of story. Her craft is so strong it becomes transparent, and, like the best storytellers, she knows how to get out of the way so the story can tell itself. San Francisco Chronicle
From its wonderful title to its final sentence, this book brims with the poetry of the South. Los Angeles Times Book Review
Marvelously entertaining These are stories you want to read again to catch all the things you missed the first time around." The Boston Globe"
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Review
"Sparkles like diamonds..."Tongue of Fire" is, quite simply, one of the best short stories I've ever read."--"Chicago"" Tribune"
"Smith is at her best....Peepholes of insight light up the best stories. Before we can blink, we're dazzled."--"USA"" Today"
"Revelatory writing from a master storyteller...Tiny explosion[s], little surprises, minor epiphanies pepper the lives of Smith's characters in her latest collection."--"Library Journal"
"Smith's insights and the graceful, effortless prose place her characters firmly in their regional--yet universal--milieu."--"Publishers Weekly"
"Rings so true you wonder if she doesn't know your own mother."--"Greensboro"" Daily News & Record"
"If you like her novels, you'll love her short stories."--"The Charlotte Observer"
More Praise for "Me and My Baby View the Eclipse"
"Sparkles like diamonds..."Tongue of Fire" is, quite simply, one of the best short stories I've ever read."--"Chicago Tribune"
"Smith is at her best....Peepholes of insight light up the best stories. Before we can blink, we're dazzled."--"USA Today"
"Revelatory writing from a master storyteller...Tiny explosion[s], little surprises, minor epiphanies pepper the lives of Smith's characters in her latest collection."--"Library Journal"
"Smith's insights and the graceful, effortless prose place her characters firmly in their regional--yet universal--milieu."--"Publishers Weekly"
"Rings so true you wonder if she doesn't know your own mother."--"Greensboro Daily News & Record"
"If you like her novels, you'll love her short stories."--"The Charlotte Observer"
More Praise for Me and My Baby View the Eclipse
Sparkles like diamonds Tongue of Fire is, quite simply, one of the best short stories I ve ever read. Chicago Tribune
Smith is at her best. Peepholes of insight light up the best stories. Before we can blink, we re dazzled. USA Today
Revelatory writing from a master storyteller Tiny explosion[s], little surprises, minor epiphanies pepper the lives of Smith s characters in her latest collection. Library Journal
Smith s insights and the graceful, effortless prose place her characters firmly in their regional yet universal milieu. Publishers Weekly
Rings so true you wonder if she doesn t know your own mother. Greensboro Daily News & Record
If you like her novels, you ll love her short stories. The Charlotte Observer"
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