Fair and tender ladies
By: Lee Smith.
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Women -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Fiction; Mountain life -- Fiction; Appalachian Region, Southern -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.