Fancy Strut

Name: Fancy Strut
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Lee Smith
ISBN: 9781440799884

Author: Lee Smith

Narrator: Linda Stephens

Unabridged: 12 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/11/2008

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Lee Smith, author of the acclaimed The Last Girls, delights with a tale of dry wit. Smith has won many prizes, such as the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Academy Award in Literature. Speed, Alabama is celebrating 150 years of proud existence-and its whimsical inhabitants will definitely not let the event pass without a party. "Deft and assured ... Smith's seemingly effortless work is a considerable feat ... She is nothing less than masterly."-The New York Times Book Review

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jay

There a good number of characters in this book. It is about a town in Alabama and its sesquicentennial. The book goes into the characters in the fictional town of Speed and the celebration. It covers everything from who is sleeping with home to teenage angst to a crazy old spinster. The book is funn......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca

I've been lucky enough to see Lee a few times. She never fails to have a grin, a mischievous grin, plastered on her face, like she's laughing at you and with you all at once. And I see why in this book. Fancy Strut is a TRIP. Smith takes us inside the world of Speed, Alabama to see how they will cel......more

Goodreads review by Treasure Island

I love Lee Smith's books. This one, however, did not hit the mark. There was not one character in the whole book (and there were many characters) who was even slightly likable. A mishmash of a plot. Not for me.......more

Goodreads review by Caitlin

Just mehh......more