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Grace Toney Edwards Appalachian Heritage, Volume 35, Number 2, Spring 2007, pp. 94-96 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2007.0127 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/433643/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 19:02 GMT from JHU Libraries Lee Smith. On Agate Hill. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006, 367 pages. Hardback. $24.95. In her usual fashion of giving us full family stories, Lee Smith writes a novel that spans generations, although the focus is clearly on one Molly Petree whose life covers the years of 1859-1927. In some respects this is a Civil War and Reconstruction story, but it is also a human interest story in much the same vein as Ivy Rowe's narrative in Lee Smith's beloved 1988 novel, Fair and Tender Ladies. Indeed, I hear many echoes of Ivy Rowe, who dreamed of becoming a writer who would write of love. Molly Petree also writes of love to fulfill the requests of her childhood friend Mary White Worthington, but in each case the love story takes a very different turn from that imagined by the naïve, idealistic youngsters. Both books are told through the medium of written chronicles: letters composed
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jan 8, 2014
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