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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:On Agate Hillby Lee Smith
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:A dusty box discovered in the wreckage of a once prosperous plantation on Agate Hill in Nnorth Carolina contains the remnants of an extraordinary life: diaries, letters, poems, songs, newspaper clippings, court records, marbles, rocks, dolls, and bones. It's through these treasured mementos that we meet Molly Petree.
Raised in those ruins and orphaned by the Civil War, Molly is a refugee who has no interest in self-pity. When a mysterious benefactor appears out her father's past to rescue her, she never looks back. Spanning half a century, On Agate Hillfollows Mollyand#8217;s passionate, picaresque journey through love, betrayal, motherhood, a murder trialand#8212;and back home to Agate Hill under circumstances she never could have imagined. Review:andquot;The the willful Molly is no hot-house flower, and her determination to live her own lifeand#8212;for better or worseand#8212;is the driving force of this powerful novel.andquot;and#8212;USA Today
Review:andquot;Big, sweeping,epic. andquot;- MSNBC.COM
Review:andquot;Smith is such a beautiful writer, tough and full of grace, that soon you are lost in the half-light of Molly's haunted landscape, listening to the voices of the ghosts, wishing they'd let you stay longer.andquot;and#8212;The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Synopsis:The "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Last Girls" has written a novel that imagines the life of an orphaned girl coming of age in the post-Civil War South, and follows the young girls journey through love, betrayal, motherhood, and a murder trial. About the AuthorLee Smith is the author of nine previous novels as well as three collections of stories. Her ninth novel, The Last Girls, was a New York Timesbestseller as well as co-winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. The recipient of an Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999, Smith lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Table of ContentsCONTENTS Letter from Tuscany Miller Agate Hill 5 Notes from Tuscany Paradise Lost 129 Further Notes from Tuscany Up on Bobcat 217 Plain View 273 Another Country 311 Final Notes from Tuscany Acknowledgments 365 What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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