Mrs. Darcy and the blue-eyed stranger new and selected stories
Collects fourteen stories--seven brand-new ones along with seven favorites from Smith's three earlier collections--about characters such as an eight-year-old boy obsessed with vocabulary words, a young bride who has married "way up," and Mrs. Darcy herself, an older woman making it through widowhood...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill, N.C. :
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | Collects fourteen stories--seven brand-new ones along with seven favorites from Smith's three earlier collections--about characters such as an eight-year-old boy obsessed with vocabulary words, a young bride who has married "way up," and Mrs. Darcy herself, an older woman making it through widowhood her own way. |
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| Physical Description: | 352 p. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781565129153 1565129156 |
| Author Notes: | In her senior year at Hollins, Smith entered a Book-of-the-Month Club contest, submitting a draft of a novel called The Last Day the Dog Bushes Bloomed. The book, one of 12 entries to receive a fellowship, was published in 1968. Smith wrote reviews for local papers and continued to write short stories. Her first collection of short stories, Cakewalk, was published in 1981. Smith taught at North Carolina State University. Her novel, Oral History, published in 1983, was a Book-of-the-Month Club featured selection. She has received two O. Henry Awards, the Robert Penn Warren Prize for Fiction, the North Carolina Award for Fiction, the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Award, and the Academy Award in Literature presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. (Bowker Author Biography) |
