"On Agate Hill is a masterpiece and may come to be considered a
more important novel than even Smith's wonderful Fair and Tender
Ladies. . . . Somebody should give a copy of this book to a member
of the Nobel committee."
--Donald Harrington, The News and Observer
"Smith plays with authorial antecedents and literary references
from Charlotte Bronte, Faulkner and Milton, and there are echoes of
Dickens and Henry James. . . . In On Agate Hill, author Smith is in
full command of her talent for strong stories and evocative
characters, and her always fine, shining prose is extra-pearly
here. . . . Lee Smith has never written a lousy book; she may never
have written a lousy sentence. And so, to declare this novel her
best yet--well, that's saying something. On Agate Hill is more
ambitious than Family Linen and more exquisitely crafted than Oral
History. . . . Smith is such a beautiful writer, tough and full of
grace, that soon you are lost in the half-light of Molly's haunted
landscape, listening to the voices of the ghosts, wishing they'd
let you stay longer."
--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"An authentic American saga, bittersweet as an Appalachian ballad,
peopled with wonderfully vivid characters, so brilliantly
constructed we never even notice the quilt-like artfulness of its
design. One of those books you can either roam contentedly around
in for days, or devour at once, in a rush of pure pleasure."
--"Kirkus"
"Set among the ashes of the Civil War, Lee Smith's new novel brings
a dead world blazingly to life. . . . A book that seeks to
rejuvenate the rapt early reader in us all. . . . [Lee Smith] is a
subtly intrepid and challenging storyteller."
--Washington Post Book World
" Set among the ashes of the Civil War, Lee Smith's new novel
brings a dead world blazingly to life. . . . A book that seeks to
rejuvenate the rapt early reader in us all. . . . [Lee Smith] is a
subtly intrepid and challenging storyteller."
-- Washington Post Book World
" On Agate Hill is a masterpiece and may come to be considered a
more important novel than even Smith's wonderful Fair and Tender
Ladies. . . . Somebody should give a copy of this book to a member
of the Nobel committee."
-- Donald Harrington, The News and Observer
" Smith plays with authorial antecedents and literary references
from Charlotte Bronte, Faulkner and Milton, and there are echoes of
Dickens and Henry James. . . . In On Agate Hill, author Smith is in
full command of her talent for strong stories and evocative
characters, and her always fine, shining prose is extra-pearly
here. . . . Lee Smith has never written a lousy book; she may never
have written a lousy sentence. And so, to declare this novel her
best yet--well, that's saying something. On Agate Hill is more
ambitious than Family Linen and more exquisitely crafted than Oral
History. . . . Smith is such a beautiful writer, tough and full of
grace, that soon you are lost in the half-light of Molly's haunted
landscape, listening to the voices of the ghosts, wishing they'd
let you stay longer."
-- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
" An authentic American saga, bittersweet as an Appalachian ballad,
peopled with wonderfully vivid characters, so brilliantly
constructed we never even notice the quilt-like artfulness of its
design. One of those books you can either roam contentedly around
in for days, or devour at once, in a rush of pure pleasure."
-- "Kirkus"
"On Agate Hill is a masterpiece and may come to be considered a
more important novel than even Smith's wonderful Fair and Tender
Ladies. . . . Somebody should give a copy of this book to a member
of the Nobel committee."
--Donald Harrington, The News and Observer
"Smith plays with authorial antecedents and literary references
from Charlotte Bronte, Faulkner and Milton, and there are echoes of
Dickens and Henry James. . . . In On Agate Hill, author Smith is in
full command of her talent for strong stories and evocative
characters, and her always fine, shining prose is extra-pearly
here. . . . Lee Smith has never written a lousy book; she may never
have written a lousy sentence. And so, to declare this novel her
best yet--well, that's saying something. On Agate Hill is more
ambitious than Family Linen and more exquisitely crafted than Oral
History. . . . Smith is such a beautiful writer, tough and full of
grace, that soon you are lost in the half-light of Molly's haunted
landscape, listening to the voices of the ghosts, wishing they'd
let you stay longer."
--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"An authentic American saga, bittersweet as an Appalachian ballad,
peopled with wonderfully vivid characters, so brilliantly
constructed we never even notice the quilt-like artfulness of its
design. One of those books you can either roam contentedly around
in for days, or devour at once, in a rush of pure pleasure."
--"Kirkus"
"Set among the ashes of the Civil War, Lee Smith's new novel brings
a dead world blazingly to life. . . . A book that seeks to
rejuvenate the rapt early reader in us all. . . . [Lee Smith] is a
subtly intrepid and challenging storyteller."
--Washington Post Book World
" Set among the ashes of the Civil War, Lee Smith's new novel
brings a dead world blazingly to life. . . . A book that seeks to
rejuvenate the rapt early reader in us all. . . . [Lee Smith] is a
subtly intrepid and challenging storyteller."
-- Washington Post Book World
" On Agate Hill is a masterpiece and may come to be considered a
more important novel than even Smith's wonderful Fair and Tender
Ladies. . . . Somebody should give a copy of this book to a member
of the Nobel committee."
-- Donald Harrington, The News and Observer
" Smith plays with authorial antecedents and literary references
from Charlotte Bronte, Faulkner and Milton, and there are echoes of
Dickens and Henry James. . . . In On Agate Hill, author Smith is in
full command of her talent for strong stories and evocative
characters, and her always fine, shining prose is extra-pearly
here. . . . Lee Smith has never written a lousy book; she may never
have written a lousy sentence. And so, to declare this novel her
best yet--well, that's saying something. On Agate Hill is more
ambitious than Family Linen and more exquisitely crafted than Oral
History. . . . Smith is such a beautiful writer, tough and full of
grace, that soon you are lost in the half-light of Molly's haunted
landscape, listening to the voices of the ghosts, wishing they'd
let you stay longer."
-- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
" An authentic American saga, bittersweet as an Appalachian ballad,
peopled with wonderfully vivid characters, so brilliantly
constructed we never even notice the quilt-like artfulness of its
design. One of those books you can either roam contentedly around
in for days, or devour at once, in a rush of pure pleasure."
-- "Kirkus"
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