On Agate Hill ***SIGNED & DATED*** ***ADVANCE READING COPY***

Lee Smith

ISBN 10: 1565124529 / ISBN 13: 9781565124523

Published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 2006

About this Item

Advance Reading Copy (ARC). First Edition, First Printing with a full number line. Signed, without inscription, and dated 10/26/06 by author on the FULL title page. New unread As New book without dust jacket as issued. All our books are bubble wrapped and shipped in a sturdy box with Delivery Confirmation. NO remainder mark, NO previous owner markings or inscriptions, NOT price clipped, NOT a Book Club Edition, NOT an Ex-Lib.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: On Agate Hill ***SIGNED & DATED*** ***ADVANCE READING COPY***
• Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565124529
• ISBN 13: 9781565124523
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: New
• Signed: Signed

About this title

Synopsis

A dusty box discovered in the wreckage of a once prosperous plantation on Agate Hill in North Carolina contains the remnants of an extraordinary life: diaries, letters, poems, songs, newspaper clippings, court records, marbles, rocks, dolls, and bones. It's through these treasured mementos that we meet Molly Petree.

Raised in those ruins and orphaned by the Civil War, Molly is a refugee who has no interest in self-pity. When a mysterious benefactor appears out her father's past to rescue her, she never looks back.

Spanning half a century, On Agate Hill follows Molly’s passionate, picaresque journey through love, betrayal, motherhood, a murder trial―and back home to Agate Hill under circumstances she never could have imagined.

About the Author

Born in the small coal-mining town of Grundy, Virginia, Lee Smith began writing stories at the age of nine and selling them for a nickel apiece. Since then, she has written seventeen works of fiction, including Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, and, most recently, Guests on Earth. She has received many awards, including the North Carolina Award for Literature and an Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; her novel The Last Girls was a New York Times bestseller as well as winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina, with her husband, the writer Hal Crowther. Visit her at www.leesmith.com.