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The Last Girls (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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Lee Smith’s tenth novel focuses on five women who were once undergraduate roommates at a Southern women’s college. In 1965, inspired by a handsome young instructor’s dramatic reading of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the five young women joined with six others and sailed down the Mississippi River on a raft, earning some notoriety as local newspapers photographed the spunky college girls and less adventurous, land-bound housewives offered them picnic lunches along the river.

Thirty-five years later, Harriet Holding, Catherine Wilson, Courtney...

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