Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger

Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger

<DIV>Lee Smith is a "teller of tales for tale tellers to admire and envy . . . [and] a reader’s dream" (<I>Houston Chronicle</I>). A celebrated and bestselling writer with a dozen novels under her name, including <I>Fair and Tender Ladies</I>, <I>Oral History</I>, and<I> The Last Girls</I>, she is just as widely recognized for her exceptional short stories. Here, in <I>Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger</I>, Smith collects seven brand-new stories along with seven of her favorites from three earlier collections. The result? A book of dazzling richness. As the <I>New York Times Book Review</I> put it, "In al- most every one of [her stories] there is a moment of vision, or love, or unclothed wonder that transforms something plain into something transcendent."</DIV>