Addie
A Memoir
Will be published approx. on 31. October 1998
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-1-57003-284-4 (ISBN)
Description
Novelist Mary Lee Settle's autobiography portrays inherited choices, old habits and quarrels, old disguises and the river that formed the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia and the mores of her childhood. She traces her childhood dreams through adulthood and ends back at her source in the Valley.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
South Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
32 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
562 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57003-284-4 (9781570032844)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Mary Lee Settle's major work is The Beulah Quintet, and her Blood Tie was the winner of the National Book Award. Settle has received an Award for Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and awards from the Southern Regional Council, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Merrill Foundation. She is the founder of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The author, most recently, of Choices, Settle's backlist is published with new introductions by the author by the University of South Carolina Press. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.