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Me and My Baby View the Eclipse
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
“Extremely powerful…Me and My Baby View the Eclipse is about striving and the secret nobility of people who live in a small-town American South. In these stories—thank heaven—not everything fits: they are loose, they are sometimes awkward, but just about every one shines with revelation and awe in the face of momentary greatness and tragedy.…Nearly every one of these stories could move a reader to tears, for in almost every one of them there is a moment of vision, or love, or unclothed wonder that transforms something plain into something transcendent.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Remarkable…Lee Smith is a Southern storyteller in the very best tradition, combining an unmistakable voice with an infallible sense of story.… Her craft is so strong it becomes transparent, and, like the best storytellers, she knows how to get out of the way so the story can tell itself.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“From its wonderful title to its final sentence, this book brims with the poetry of the South.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Marvelously entertaining…These are stories you want to read again to catch all the things you missed the first time around."—The Boston Globe
“Extremely powerful…Me and My Baby View the Eclipse is about striving and the secret nobility of people who live in a small-town American South. In these stories—thank heaven—not everything fits: they are loose, they are sometimes awkward, but just about every one shines with revelation and awe in the face of momentary greatness and tragedy.…Nearly every one of these stories could move a reader to tears, for in almost every one of them there is a moment of vision, or love, or unclothed wonder that transforms something plain into something transcendent.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Remarkable…Lee Smith is a Southern storyteller in the very best tradition, combining an unmistakable voice with an infallible sense of story.… Her craft is so strong it becomes transparent, and, like the best storytellers, she knows how to get out of the way so the story can tell itself.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“From its wonderful title to its final sentence, this book brims with the poetry of the South.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Marvelously entertaining…These are stories you want to read again to catch all the things you missed the first time around."—The Boston Globe
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Laura Christensen
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“Lee Smith hails from the same part of the world as me, so I've always felt the need to dive into her books, and I'm also proud that such a prolific author is from the Appalachian region. I read her memoir a few years back, so this is the first actual book of hers that I've read.
I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would. If you would have told me that a book of short stories about the run-of-the-mill goings-on of working class and middle class people in the American South during the late 20th Century, I would have said that that type of book doesn't sound very interesting.
The thing about Lee Smith though is that she is a great writer. She can take the bland, the mundane, and the average and make it interesting. I read this in less than two days. I don't know if it's because she "writes like I talk" or what, but she's good. Damn good.
I liked all of the stories, except for "Desire on Domino Hill", which was blah (and I believe that was the point). I particularly liked "Bob, a Dog", "Tongues of Fire", "Dreamers", and "Intensive Care". The remaining stories, "Mom", "Life on the Moon", "The Interpretation of Dreams", and the titular story, "Me and My Baby View the Eclipse" were good, but not as striking as the aforementioned.
In summary, this was a fun collection and it reminded me of short stories that were required reading for English classes in college.”
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About Lee Smith
Lee Smith was born in Grundy, VA. She is author of many novels, including the New York Times bestseller The Last Girls, and most recently Guests On Earth. She is a recipient of the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the North Carolina Award for Literature, and a Southern Book Critics Circle Award.
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