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Dimestore [large type] / Lee Smith.

by Smith, Lee, 1944- author.

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Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016.

Smith, Lee, 1944- -- Childhood and youth.

Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

Grundy (Va.) -- Biography.

Grundy (Va.) -- Social life and customs.

9781410490681 (large print)

1410490688 (large print)

Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs.

259 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.

Large print edition.

Preface: Raised to leave: some thoughts on "culture" -- Dimestore -- Recipe box -- Kindly nervous -- Lady lessons -- Marble cake and moonshine -- Big river -- On Lou's porch -- Lightning storm -- Driving Miss Daisy crazy, or, Losing the mind of the South -- Good-bye to the sunset man -- Blue heaven -- A life in books -- Angels passing -- The little locksmith.

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.

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