News of the Spirit by Lee Smith - SIGNED

On her website, Lee Smith confesses, "Although I don't usually write autobiographical fiction, my main character in one of the short stories from News of the Spirit sounds suspiciously like the girl I used to be: 'More than anything else in the world, I wanted to be a writer. I didn't want to learn to write, of course. I just wanted to be a writer, and I often pictured myself poised at the foggy edge of a cliff somewhere in the south of France, wearing a cape, drawing furiously on a long cigarette, hollow-cheeked and haunted. I had been romantically dedicated to the grand idea of 'being a writer' ever since I can remember.'" Yes, you will find that on page 2 of this book!  The August/September issue of Garden and Gun includes an article entitled, "Lee Smith: Great Southern Storyteller." She is such a good storyteller that sometimes the wisdom contained in her stories takes you by surprise. Lee Smith, now in her seventies, still comes across like a teen-aged cheerleader! She is loud, en