Charlie Smith

• Sep-1986
• / General Fiction
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The egotistical, uninhibited Elizabeth Bonnet Burdette, daughter of a multimillionaire Charleston banker and the wife of the head of a powerful business dynasty, recklessly and relentlessly pursues sensational thrills and experiences, regardless of t...

• Feb-1991
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“Who but a poet in joy of himself can write of the discordant facts to make of them a dance of words across the page. He offers no resolution, no turning of things right side up, except to address them gallantly, with style, in entertainment of ...

• Sep-1991
• / Literary
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A man abandoned by his friends reaches out to a woman who has given up on herself; two friends embark on a harrowing winter canoe trip; and four people, members of the same family, create their own world of questionable normalcy on a jungle island in...

• Nov-1991
• / General Fiction
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Questions about the relationship of artist to oeuvre are raised in this tale of a cult-filmmaker so engrossed in a project about a fictitious serial killer that his characters become real to him. ``Blisteringly beautiful,'' said PW. Smith ``fashions ...

• Apr-1993
• / Suspense
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Novelist Charlie Smith takes on the illusion and madness of America's fantasy factory. Hollywood is home for Smith's narrator, Will Blake, the scion of two generations of movie folk, himself an actor by default, though a good one, for who could bette...

• Aug-1996
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• May-2005
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• May-2010
• / General Fiction
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Billy Brent and Alice Stephens are star-crossed like all great lovers. Their need for each other drives them from Istanbul to Miami, Venice to Mexico. After years of encounters and escapes, they lose themselves deep in a desert wilderness, searching ...

• Jul-2013
• / Suspense
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In Men in Miami Hotels, Smith tells the story of Cot Sims, a listing Miami gangster who returns to Key West aiming to -- among other things -- save his fool-proof mother from homelessness after a recent hurricane. For love, for cash, and for the hell...

• Feb-2016
• / Literary
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A sweeping, eerily resonant epic of race and violence in the Jim Crow South: a lyrical and emotionally devastating masterpiece from Charlie Smith, whom the New York Public Library has said “may be America’s most bewitching stylist alive.” De...