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| Original Title: | Fair and Tender Ladies |
| ISBN: | 0345383990 (ISBN13: 9780345383990) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Ivy Rowe |
| Setting: | United States of America |
| Literary Awards: | Weatherford Award (1988) |
Lee Smith
Paperback | Pages: 316 pages Rating: 4.16 | 6878 Users | 664 Reviews
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| Title | : | Fair and Tender Ladies |
| Author | : | Lee Smith |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 316 pages |
| Published | : | June 17th 1993 by Ballantine Books (first published 1988) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. American. Southern |
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From Ivy Rowe's birth on Blue Star Mountain, her life is full of passion and longing as she writes letters to family and friends. Ivy's talent as a budding writer is recognized early on, but just as she is about to realize her dream of going north to school, she is betrayed by her passionate nature. Facing an unwed pregnancy and publicly admonished for her sins, Ivy marries a childhood friend who takes her back to the family homestead, where she bears several children and endures the endless toil of a farmer's wife. Through her trials Ivy holds firm, knowing that her life will hold happiness one day.Rating Containing Books Fair and Tender Ladies
Ratings: 4.16 From 6878 Users | 664 ReviewsNotice Containing Books Fair and Tender Ladies
This novel is one of my favorite books of all time. Polly Hollar gave it to me in college with two lines from the book inscribed in the cover: "Slow down, slow down, this is the taste of spring" and "I have walked in my body like a queen." It's an epistolary book that appears as a compilation of all the letters written by a poor Appalachian woman named Ivy Rowe throughout her lifetime. Some letters are to herself, a pen pal, or to individuals who will never receive them. Some letters are toLee Smiths Fair and Tender Ladies portrays better than any other book I have ever read, the hopes and joys, and trials and tribulations of a life spent in the hills and hollows of Appalachia. Told in epistolary style using letters written to friends and family of Ivy Rowe, a girl born at the dawn of the 20th century up Sugar Fork on Blue Star Mountain in Western Virginia. Hers is a story rich in the vibrant history of the Scots Irish settlers who carved out a tenuous foothold in the wilderness
So here we have Ivy Rowe, daughter of Maude Castle Rowe and John Arthur Rowe. Her siblings were Silvaney, Ethel, Beulah, Garnie, Johnny, and Victor. Pardon me if I left one out. Sugar Fork farm was their homestead up in the Smokie Appalachians of South Carolina. Dirt-poor and dire spelled out their destiny. Oakley Fox was Ivy's eventual husband. Her autodidactive life came out in different letters to a world full of characters. The one more sinful, adventurous or colorful than the next. Oakley
I had not heard of this author nor of this book before I saw it was a pick this month of the GR group On the Southern Literary Trail. Its a favorite group that has introduced me to many great authors and stories, so I dived right in. Boy, am I glad I did! This book will certainly have a place in my top ten books ever. Yes, it was that good. Ivy Rowe is a woman born into a dirt-poor family on a farm beside Sugar Fork creek on a mountain in southwest Virginia coal country, an often-cruel
I think that maybe I love Ivy Rowe more than any character I've read. The reader meets Ivy as a child and grows old with her. She's a natural-born writer, so the story is told in epistolary style through the letters Ivy is forever writing to her friends and family. Ivy believes she yearns to see the world, but as her life progresses and she has opportunities to escape the poverty of her Appalachian upbringing, she discovers that the pull of home and family are stronger than that of travel and
The best of the 4s. This was a long story of Ivy Rowes life. She tells it all herself in letters to her loved ones. It goes on my keep forever shelf because someday when I am old I will reread this womans story again. There are so many points of wisdom in it to be absorbed at future stages in my life. I guess though I loved this book the very most because it put me in mind of my mom and my sister that Ivy seems to be an exact cross between. And I love them so much that I cannot help but love
A delightful and thought provoking novel about the life and times of feisty Ivy Rowe as told in personal letters written from her early childhood to old age. Hailing from Sugarfork Farm in the mountains of Virginia she imparts a lot of life lessons from having lived as a strong, sometimes unconventional, woman who followed a life path predominately dictated by her own conscience. A book republished 3 times since it's first printing in 1988, and one that really needs to be rediscovered !!Read for
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