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Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed

Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed

Smith, Lee

Paperback

Series: Voices of the South

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 0807119350
ISBN13: 9780807119358
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Mar 1 1994
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

That whole summer is as clear and as still in my head as the corsage under the glass bell in Mrs. Tate's parlor. Even now, summers and summers since, I can remember everything. I remember the day summer started.
So begins Lee Smith's disarming first novel, written while she was an undergraduate at Hollins College and a winner in 1968 of the Book-of-the-Month Club Writing Fellowship Contest. The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed, set in a small southern town at midcentury, tells the story of nine-year-old Susan, for whom the first bright, carefree, promise-filled days of summer slowly evolve into a time of innocence lost and childhood illusions shattered. Susan's mother is vain and frivolous, her father loving but distracted, and her sister, several years her senior, is coping with the first stirrings of serious love. Susan's circle of young friends is joined for the summer by Eugene, the frail, strange nephew of a neighbor. As the months pass, Susan witnesses the disintegration of her parents' marriage and learns from Eugene the cruelty people sometimes resort to.

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