Cakewalk
Subtitle: stories
By: Lee Smith ; with a new introduction by the author
Series: Southern revival series
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Columbia, South Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781611174199
Subjects: Women; Fiction; Social life and customs
Work titles: Short stories
Description: First published in 1982, Cakewalk was the first short story collection by iconic Southern writer Lee Smith. Comic and observant, Smith's fourteen tales in Cakewalk introduce readers to a host of memorable Southern characters. Her protagonists include aging gossips, a soap opera-hooked housewife, a runaway teenager, and divergent sisters in various combinations. Smith's gutsy Southern women don't always triumph, but, with her sympathetic portrayals, readers gain appreciation for the merits of spirited perseverance, right or wrong, in the face of modern adversity.
Notes: "Published in cooperation with the Instittute for Southern Studies of the University of South Carolina."--Title page.