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Fair and tender ladies (1988)

Fair and tender ladies (1988)

Literary Fiction

Lee Smith

Year: 1988
Authors: Lee Smith
Print type: BOOK

Description:

Fair and Tender Ladies is an epistolary novel that traces the life of Ivy Rowe, born in the isolated Virginia mountain community of Sugar Fork. Through births and deaths, marriages and funerals, the decades of Ivy's life are captured in a rich dialect that carries the sounds and sights of the Appalachians in each syllable.