· The Last Girls: A Novel. by Lee Smith. Dateline: Paducah, Kentucky J. Sixteen college seniors begin a journey down the Mississippi River: homage to "Huckleberry Finn" and a farewell to their girlhood. They built their own raft, kept journals and had the time of their young lives. In the brisk and readable The Last Girls, acclaimed Southern writer Lee Smith reunites four college suitemates on a boat tour of the mighty Mississippi. Thirty-five years before, inspired by reading Twain's Huckleberry Finn in class (a detail not nearly revisited enough), the women floated down the same river on a manmade raft; now they are gathered at the request of their recently deceased ringleader's /5(). · The Last Girls: A Novel. by Lee Smith. 1. Harriet dubs the four women on the river cruise "the last girls." What does she mean by this name? How is The Last Girls an appropriate title for the novel? 2. Author Lee Smith writes The Last Girls in the third person, but devotes chapters to different, alternating points of view. What affect does this shifting narrative viewpoint have on the story?
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In the brisk and readable The Last Girls, acclaimed Southern writer Lee Smith reunites four college suitemates on a boat tour of the mighty Mississippi. Thirty-five years before, inspired by reading Twain's Huckleberry Finn in class (a detail not nearly revisited enough), the women floated down the same river on a manmade raft; now they are gathered at the request of their recently deceased ringleader's husband. Her talent at weaving tragedy with humor is on full display with The Last Girls. This novel makes those of us in middle age re-think the choices we've made and the opportunities we might have missed. However, the way Smith writes it with humor and grace keeps the novel from becoming a downer. The Last Girls: A Novel. by Lee Smith. Dateline: Paducah, Kentucky J. Sixteen college seniors begin a journey down the Mississippi River: homage to "Huckleberry Finn" and a farewell to their girlhood. They built their own raft, kept journals and had the time of their young lives.
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