The Devil's Dream

Lee Smith

Putnam, 1992 - Fiction - 315 pages

A sweeping saga about the world of country music by Lee Smith, a Southern storyteller in the very best tradition {who}, like the best of storytellers, knows how to get out of the way so the story can tell itself.--San Francisco Chronicle. Lee Smith is the author of Fair and Tender Ladies.

Contents

• Section 1: 11
• Section 2: 17
• Section 3: 33

About the author

Lee Smith is a novelist, short story writer, and educator. She was born in 1944 in Grundy, Virginia. Smith attended Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia. In her senior year at Hollins, Smith entered a Book-of-the-Month Club contest, submitting a draft of a novel called The Last Day the Dog Bushes Bloomed. The book, one of 12 entries to receive a fellowship, was published in 1968. Smith wrote reviews for local papers and continued to write short stories. Her first collection of short stories, Cakewalk, was published in 1981. Smith taught at North Carolina State University. Her novel, Oral History, published in 1983, was a Book-of-the-Month Club featured selection. She has received two O. Henry Awards, the Robert Penn Warren Prize for Fiction, the North Carolina Award for Fiction, the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Award, and the Academy Award in Literature presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Devil's Dream
• Author: Lee Smith
• Publisher: Putnam, 1992
• ISBN: 0399137459, 9780399137457
• Length: 315 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General