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Fair and tender ladies

by Lee Smith · 1988

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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.

FictionWomenMountain lifeLarge type booksAppalachian mountains, fictionFiction, women