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Today's Featured Title and Contest |
March 23, 2016 |
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This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this spring. Read more about it, and enter our Spring Preview Contest by Thursday, March 24th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of DIMESTORE: A Writer's Life by Lee Smith, which is now available. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
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Today's Featured Book and Contest: DIMESTORE: A Writer's Life, by Lee Smith
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In her first work of nonfiction, Lee Smith deploys the wit, wisdom and graceful prose for which she is beloved to conjure her early days in the small coal town of Grundy, Virginia --- and beyond.
For the inimitable Lee Smith, place is paramount. For 45 years, her fiction has lived and breathed with the rhythms and people of the Appalachian South. But never before has she written her own story.
Set deep in the mountains of Virginia, the Grundy of Lee Smith’s youth was a place of coal miners, tent revivals, mountain music, drive-in theaters and her daddy’s dimestore. It was in that dimestore --- listening to customers and inventing adventures for the store’s dolls --- that she became a storyteller. Even when she was sent off to college to earn some “culture,” she understood that perhaps the richest culture she might ever know was the one she was driving away from --- and it’s a place that she never left behind.
DIMESTORE's 15 essays are crushingly honest, wise and perceptive, and superbly entertaining. Smith has created both a moving personal portrait and a testament to embracing one’s heritage. It’s also an inspiring story of the birth of a writer and a poignant look at a way of life that has all but vanished.
-Click here to read an excerpt.
-Click here to visit Lee Smith's official website.
-Click here to connect with Lee Smith on Facebook.
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Click here to enter the contest by 11:59am ET on Thursday, March 24th. |
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