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Dimestore
- A Writer's Life
- By: Lee Smith
- Narrated by: Linda Stephens
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 102
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Story4 out of 5 stars 90
For the inimitable Lee Smith, place is paramount. For 45 years, her fiction has lived and breathed with the rhythms and people of the Appalachian South. But never before has she written her own story. Set deep in the rugged Appalachian Mountains, the Grundy of Lee Smith's youth was a place of coal miners, mountain music, and her daddy's dimestore. It was in that dimestore - listening to customers and inventing life histories for the store's dolls - that she began to learn the craft of storytelling.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pronunciation matters!
- By Tricia on 03-26-16
- Dimestore
- A Writer's Life
- By: Lee Smith
- Narrated by: Linda Stephens
Great Memoir, Disappointing Narrator
Reviewed: 07-28-16
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This was a really lovely memoir, but I so, so wish that it had been read by Lee Smith herself. This narrator does not capture the warm southern accent that Smith has, and instead it feels forced and unappealing. Also, it grated on my every nerve that she pronounced Appalachian "appa-lay-shun." It seems like a huge oversight that the narrator of an Appalachian memoir wouldn't pronounce it "appa-latch-un," as is fairly universally considered the correct pronunciation, not to mention how Smith herself pronounces it. I'd say read this one but skip the audiobook!
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