Fair and Tender Ladies

Name: Fair and Tender Ladies
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Lee Smith
ISBN: 9781440799860

Author: Lee Smith

Narrator: Kate Forbes

Unabridged: 13 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/11/2008

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Author of many novels and short stories, best-selling writer Lee Smith has received numerous awards for her works, including two O Henry Awards. Fair and Tender Ladies is an epistolary novel that traces the life of Ivy Rowe, born in the isolated Virginia mountain community of Sugar Fork. Through births and deaths, marriages and funerals, the decades of Ivy's life are captured in a rich dialect that carries the sounds and sights of the Appalachians in each syllable.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Candi on March 27, 2018

"It’s funny how a person can be so busy living that they forget this is it. This is my life." In the words of Ivy Rowe, one of the most spirited, wisest, and most memorable literary characters EVER, I am ‘ruint’ after reading this incredible novel! Seriously, I cannot get this book out of my head and......more

Goodreads review by Angela M on February 03, 2020

If only I could give more than 5 stars ! A life in letters from a wise and wonderful character named Ivy Rowe. Through her eyes we come to know her life, more than her life alone, but anyone who was a part of it . It’s a family saga, a story of a place, a history of events. The letters are not writte......more

Goodreads review by Karen on February 14, 2020

I want to thank all of you who have written amazing reviews for this book that led me to read it! Ivy Rowe had my heart, believe you me! Ivy was a mountain girl who grew up in Sugar Fork, Virginia in a poor, big family.. one of eight children. From early on she loved writing! At the suggestion of her......more