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There were nine of the Smith children, and the grandmothers and
cousins, and there was a big house that never quite ended, and
there were the smokehouse and hog-killing and the shaking of the
pecan trees, and all the delicious doings that went on in a
nineteenth-century kitchen, which lingered into the early decades
of the twentieth century. But above all, there was a father who, as
impresario and ritual maker, polished family events so that, as the
author says," Even today, a half century later, they blind the eyes
with their shine." She goes on to day, "But perhaps what holds it
so fresh in my memory is the fact that along with all our physical
play and work we lived a wild life of imagination: it was hard to
keep it from spilling over into reality and painful when reality
would step up and prune our flowering. That is why in this memory
of Christmas in a small southern town there are sudden excursions
to Versailles and the Hall of Mirrors and to the small-town Opera
House and the jail in search of a Christmas gift for the parents;
and it is why an elegant coffin could figure so prominently in the
festivities. And why, one year, forty-eight 'real' convicts ate
Christmas dinner with us."
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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This volume collects Lillian Smith s speeches and essays, under
three headings. In Addressed to the South, they are a historical
record of segregation and the opposition to segregation. In Words
That Chain Us and Words That Set Us Free, they discuss the power of
language to change political and social situations, the necessity
of respect for people s differences, the groping for meaning that
we do, and the political role of the creative person. The speeches
and essays in Of Women, Men, and Autobiography deal with such
topics as the difference in experience of women and men, the power
and powerlessness of women, and the complexities of
autobiographical truth."
When it was first published in 1944, this novel sparked immediate
controversy and became a huge bestseller. It captured with
devastating accuracy the deep-seated racial conflicts of a tightly
knit southern town. The book is as engrossing and incendiary now as
the day it was written.
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