On Agate Hill: A Novel
by Lee Smith
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Author: Lee SmithEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
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Published: 2006-09-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: A Shannon Ravenel Book
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Book Review: Another tour de force
Summary: 5 Stars
Lee Smith is a great author. She writes books with a broader scope, more robust characters, and more accurate speech than anyone living today. Lee's strongest works depict one character throughout a lifetime, and she usually gives us a resilient woman who messes up and perseveres through hardscrabble love. For all Lee Smith's other strengths, I am most grateful to her for her faith in people.
On Agate Hill is a love story and a mystery set in reconstruction. Bliss and tragedy build from childhood through a marriage, showing Molly Petree's strength unfold as if inevitably. The mystery is one about the responsibility for loss, and the author shows how the stronger of us learn to take it.
On Agate Hill challenges the reader with changes in point of view, as the novel uses a collection of letters, diaries, and papers to tell the story. A lesser author could not manage this well, but Lee Smith has the virtuosity to tell a great story in a unique manner.
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