Lee Smith is one of today's most critically acclaimed authors writing about contemporary life in the South. In Family Linen, with a remarkable economy of description and dialogue, Smith sketches eccentric, yet familiar characters moving through a family drama that resonates with both tension and hum. Family Linen by Smith, Lee and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at bltadwin.ru · Lee Smith is one of today's most critically acclaimed authors writing about contemporary life in the South. In Family Linen, with a remarkable economy of description and dialogue, Smith sketches eccentric, yet familiar characters moving through a family drama that resonates with both tension and bltadwin.ru Hess, a polished, Southern apartment manager has visited a hypnotist in a .
Family Linen is one of Lee Smith' finest. Her motivation for the book came from a Greensboro, N. C,, newspaper article about the year-old hacked-up remains of a man, which were found at the bottom of a long unused privy. Smith took the idea behind this tragedy and gave the characters life. A childhood memory re-experienced, a funeral that brings about a family reunion, and the excavation of a swimming pool on the site of an old well, uncover family secrets and air the dirty linen in this behind-the-scenes look at life and family, memory and forgetfulness, anger and forgiveness in a small Southern town. You'll get access to all of the Family Linen content, as well by Lee Smith. Intensive Care. by Lee Smith. Oral History. by Lee Smith. The Last Girls. by Lee Smith. The Christmas Letters.
“A childhood memory relived through hypnosis, a funeral that brings about a family reunion, and the evacuation of a swimming pool on the site of an old well uncover a family secret in this darkly humorous novel In the course of the story all the family’s dirty linen is aired and Smith provides a behind-the-scenes look at life in a small Southern town.”—. When Sybill Hess drives over to the hypnotist’s office, she hopes he can cure her of the headaches interrupting her sleep the way her friend Betty once. THE VILLAGE VOICE A childhood memory re-experienced, a funeral that brings about a family reunion, and the excavation of a swimming pool on the site of an old well, uncover family secrets and air the dirty linen in this behind-the-scenes look at life and family, memory and forgetfulness, anger and forgiveness in a small Southern town.
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