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"In Lee Smith's "The Last Girls," four middle-aged women friends take a riverboat tour down the Mississippi to commemorate the trip they made as college students twenty years ago. Because the story's omnicient narrator focuses on one woman at a time, readers learn bit by bit about the past and present secrets of all four women. Harriet is a lonely, never-married professor who begins dating the boat's "Riverlorian" (river-historian) halfway down the Mississippi. Courtney is a wealthy southern belle who readers learn is in the middle of ending a long-term affair. Anna is a famous romance novelist whose far-from-ideal true love died not long ago. Catherine, the only happily married one of the four, reveals that she has breast cancer. While traveling, the four women share memories of one absent friend - Baby, a vivacious, self-destructive poet who died recently in a mysterious car crash - before scattering Baby's ashes in the water of the Big Muddy. "
Jacqueline West, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- thoughtful
Time/era of story
- present (2000-2010)
Struggle over
- actions leading to death of someone
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Ethnic/regional/gender life
Yes
GROUP of women story?
Yes
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- teacher
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- natural phenomena
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a moderate amount
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 4 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- Deep South
- Midwest
Water?
Yes
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- descript of kissing
- impregnation/reproduction
- actual description of hetero sex
- descript. of female anat. (the big B's)
Unusual Style:
- a lot of flashback and forwards
- No single main character?
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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