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by Lee Smith
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Availability:In StockContributor:Lee SmithPublish date:2014-05-13Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:Algonquin BooksISBN-13:9781616203801ISBN-10:1616203803UPC:9781616203801Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Literary, SouthernSize:8.10 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCRQ9V50R2

"Reading Lee Smith ranks among the great pleasures of American fiction . . . Gives evidence again of the grace and insight that distinguish her work." --Robert Stone, author of Death of the Black-Haired Girl

It's 1936 when orphaned thirteen-year-old Evalina Toussaint is admitted to Highland Hospital, a mental institution in Asheville, North Carolina, known for its innovative treatments for nervous disorders and addictions. Taken under the wing of the hospital's most notable patient, Zelda Fitzgerald, Evalina witnesses cascading events that lead up to the tragic fire of 1948 that killed nine women in a locked ward, Zelda among them. Author Lee Smith has created, through a seamless blending of fiction and fact, a mesmerizing novel about a world apart--in which art and madness are luminously intertwined.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Algonquin BooksISBN-13:9781616203801ISBN-10:1616203803UPC:9781616203801Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Literary, SouthernSize:8.10 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCRQ9V50R2

Lee Smith is the author of fourteen novels, including Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, Saving Grace, and Guests on Earth, as well as four collections of short stories, including Me and My Baby View the Eclipse and News of the Spirit. Her novel The Last Girls was a New York Times bestseller as well as a co-winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. A retired professor of English at North Carolina State University, she has received an Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the North Carolina Award for Literature, and the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Literature.


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