Bastard Out of Carolina Paperback - 2012
by Dorothy Allison
Allison spikes her critically acclaimed first novel, a National Book Award nominee, with pungent characters, and saturates it with a sense of its setting.--"Publishers Weekly."
Summary
A modern literary classic, now available in a twentieth anniversary keepsake edition (with deckled-edges) with a new afterword by the author.
The publication of Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina was a landmark event. The novel's profound portrait of family dynamics in the rural South won the author a National Book Award nomination and launched her into the literary spotlight. Critics have likened Allison to William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Harper Lee, naming her the first writer of her generation to dramatize the lives and language of poor whites in the South. Since its appearance, the novel has inspired an award-winning film and has been banned from libraries and classrooms, championed by fans, and defended by critics.
Greenville County, South Carolina, is a wild, lush place that is home to the Boatwright family-a tight-knit clan of rough-hewn, hard- drinking men who shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who get married young and age too quickly. At the heart of this story is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a bastard child who observes the world around her with a mercilessly keen perspective. When her stepfather Daddy Glen, "cold as death, mean as a snake," becomes increasingly more vicious toward her, Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that tests the loyalty of her mother, Anney-and leads to a final, harrowing encounter from which there can be no turning back.
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- Title Bastard Out of Carolina
- Author Dorothy Allison
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, NY
- Date 2012-02-01
- Features Deckle Edges, Price on Product - Canadian
- ISBN 9780452297753 / 0452297753
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 1 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 2.54 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: South Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Geographic Orientation: South Carolina
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects Poverty, Domestic fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Entertainment Weekly, 07/05/2013, Page 103
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