Lee Smith

Guests on Earth (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A teenage girl befriends Zelda Fitzgerald in a Southern mental hospital in this "elegant historical novel" by the New York Times-bestselling author (The Washington Post). It's 1936 when orphaned thirteen-year-old Evalina Toussaint is admitted to Highland Hospital, a mental institution in Asheville, North Carolina, known for its innovative treatments for nervous disorders and addictions. Taken under the wing of the hospital's most notable patient-the famous author and iconic flapper Zelda Fitzgerald-Evalina witnesses cascading events that lead inexorably to the tragic hospital fire of 1948 that killed nine women in a locked ward, Zelda among them. In Guests on Earth, award-winning author Lee Smith seamlessly blends fiction and fact to conjure a mesmerizing world apart-in which art and madness are luminously intertwined. "A carefully researched, utterly charming novel." -The Washington Post

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781616203467
• Artikelnr.: 39514408

Autorenporträt

Lee Smith is the author of fourteen novels, including Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, Saving Grace, and Guests on Earth, as well as four collections of short stories, including Me and My Baby View the Eclipse and News of the Spirit. Her novel The Last Girls was a New York Times bestseller as well as a co-winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. A retired professor of English at North Carolina State University, she has received an Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the North Carolina Award for Literature, and the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Literature.