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Educating Molly; From the author of "The Last Girls" comes an Appalachian woman struggling to survive after the Civil War.
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The Washington Post
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October 1, 2006| Author:
Reviewed by Donna Rifkind
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ON AGATE HILL
A Novel
By Lee Smith
Algonquin. 367 pp. $24.95
Set among the ashes of the Civil War, Lee Smith's new novel
brings a dead world blazingly to life. Other contemporary novels --
Stephen Wright's The Amalgamation Polka, for instance, and E.L.
Doctorow's The March -- have reimagined the period by evoking a
you-are-there immediacy, plunking the reader bewilderingly into the
middle of battles and field hospitals. But in her 12th novel, Smith
goes a di...
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; "On Agate Hill" opens not with the rich descriptions expected from a Lee Smith novel but with a sloppy letter from Tuscany Miller to her one-time college professor. The college dropout might have found a new topic for her thesis, she writes, something uncovered from a secret room in a North
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The eventful life of a Civil War orphan; Lee Smith's new novel returns to the travails of Reconstruction-era North Carolina.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book review)
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; Byline: Heller McAlpin I live in a house of ghosts. That's the statement with which the plucky, orphaned heroine of Lee Smith's twelfth novel, On Agate Hill, inaugurates her diary in 1872. I don't want to be an angel any more than I want to be a ghost girl, Molly Petree adds in a later entry. I
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When in doubt, boom: NAFTA's progress. (North American Free Trade Agreement is good for industry in North Carolina; American Survey)
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; NORTH CAROLINA had markedly mixed feelings about the North American Free-Trade Agreement. The state had made great strides in attracting high-tech businesses; but nearly a third of its factory workers produce textiles and clothing, just the sort of industry that NAFTA was supposed to draw
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NORTH CAROLINA
Area Development Site and Facility Planning
; ... conversation with ... Jim Fain, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Commerce Q. What is the most exciting bit of development news that happened this year? A. We have had many exciting developments in 2006 and early 2007, from the recent announcement that ...
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North Carolina bounces Purdue.
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; Byline: Mercedes Mayer DALLAS _ For North Carolina, each of its four NCAA Tournament games up to this point have been all about been there, done that. Now it's time to get down to business. The No. 1-seeded Tar Heels used a dominant inside presence to send No. 2-seed Purdue home in an 84-72 win
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