The Last Girls, Lee Smith
The Last Girls, Lee Smith
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The Last Girls

Author: Lee Smith

Narrator: Linda Stephens

Unabridged: 14 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/23/2008


Synopsis

This national best-seller is a breakthrough book for Lee Smith, an author who fills her marvelous novels with humor, pathos, and powerful wisdom. The Last Girls are a group of coeds, inspired by Huck Finn, who traveled the Mississippi on a raft in 1965. Now four of them have reunited on a luxurious steamboat to cruise the river again. As they look back over the past 30 years, each one contemplates their shared past in light of their present lives.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa on January 27, 2013

This book had an interesting premise and started out well. Characters were drawn well. However, the book never really gained momentum. Hints were dropped in flashbacks which never quite came together. I kept expecting the book to build into something. You spend time with characters who appear to cha......more

Goodreads review by Lyndall on November 20, 2017

Uhhh, one of the most boring books I’ve ever read. Didn’t know what was going on half the time.......more

Goodreads review by Dana on June 23, 2013

This is one of those books I chose because of its setting (the South), but approached with caution because of its initial similarity to a grown-up version of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: a group of ladies with distinctly different personalities who are drawn together by a common bond. I wa......more

Goodreads review by Rosalie on January 10, 2021

Good story about friendship. A little choppy in the format it's written.......more