Cakewalk - Softcover

"Cakewalk is great fun, its tales shrewdly observant of segments of North Carolina life." -- The Wall Street Journal

"The South has always been a special domain for women writers. Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, Harper Lee, and Katherine Ann Porter come immediately to mind....Lee Smith, in this fine collection of short stories, joins in this tradition." -- San Diego Union

"Excellent...Beautiful portrayals...Dazzling." -- Chicago Tribune

"Lee Smith strikes dead center the nerves of women's lives and does it with a grace and style that make her one of the writers to watch most closely." -- The Houston Post

"Smith has a perfect voice, incorporating hints of both refinement and shabbiness. Quite simply, excellent writing." -- Booklist

Lee Smith, a native of Grundy, Virginia, is the author of sixteen works of fiction, including Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, and her recent collection of stories, Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger. Her many awards include the North Carolina Award for Literature and an Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; her novel The Last Girls was a New York Times best seller as well as winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. Smith's latest novel is Guests on Earth.