Dimestore
By: Lee Smith
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs; Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9781410490681
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Large type books; American Novelists; Childhood and youth; Biography; Social life and customs
Other titles: Dime store
Description: Evenly divided between a book about Smith's process and her life, first as a Southern mountain child and, later, as the parent of a schizophrenic child, this book is interesting and compelling. Despite being surrounded by loving family and being blessed with an active imagination, Lee copes with a mentally ill mother. Later, her son's mental illness and early death brings her to the breaking point but she is saved by her writing.
Table of contents: title: Preface: Raised to leave: some thoughts on "culture"; title: Dimestore; title: Recipe box; title: Kindly nervous; title: Lady lessons; title: Marble cake and moonshine; title: Big river; title: On Lou's porch; title: Lightning storm; title: Driving Miss Daisy crazy, or, Losing the mind of the South; title: Good-bye to the sunset man; title: Blue heaven; title: A life in books; title: Angels passing; title: The little locksmith.