Fair and Tender Ladies (Paperback)

from Athenable

Ivy is a charming mountain girl who grows into a passionate and brave woman who keeps her loved ones close through countless letters.

from nicolewbrown

Set in the mountains of Virginia, this sweeping novel tells the story of Ivy Rowe beginning in 1914 when she was a young teenager living on a farm way up on the mountain with her sisters and brothers and her father is lying in front of the fire slowly dying. When he does die her mother does what ...

from Unkletom

Lee Smith's Fair and Tender Ladies portrays better than any other book I have ever read, the hopes and joys, and trials and tribulations of a life spent in the hills and hollows of Appalachia. Told in epistolary style using letters written to friends and family of Ivy Rowe, a girl born at the daw...

from BookConcierge

Ivy Rowe is born around the beginning of the 20th century in the mountain cabin where her parents have settled. She is in the middle of a pack of eight children and we learn about her life through the letters she writes, beginning at age 12 to a pen pal in Holland, or to her teacher, and continui...

from JMlibrarian

I. . .am. . .Ivy. I've never identified so completely with a character. There may be other books as good about mountain people, but there are none that are superior to Lee Smith's epistolary masterpiece. She illuminates, through Ivy's lifetime of letters, a whole panorama of human experiences and...