What's Eating Gilbert Grape Paperback - 1999
by Peter Hedges
Just about everything in Endora, Iowa, is eating Gilbert Grape, a 24-year-old grocery clerk who dreams only of leaving. But when a mysterious beauty glides through town on a bicycle and rides circles around Gilbert, he begins to see a new vision of his family and himself.
First line
Standing with my brother Arnie on the edge of town has become a yearly ritual.
From the rear cover
Just about everything in Endora, Iowa (pop. 1,091 and dwindling) is eating Gilbert Grape, a twenty-four-year-old grocery clerk who dreams only of leaving. His enormous mother, once the town sweetheart, has been eating nonstop ever since her husband's suicide, and the floor beneath her TV chair is threatening to cave in. Gilbert's long-suffering older sister, Amy, still mourns the death of Elvis, and his knockout younger sister has become hooked on makeup, boys, and Jesus -- in that order. But the biggest event on the horizon for all the Grapes is the eighteenth birthday of Gilbert's younger brother, Arnie, who is a living miracle just for having survived so long. As the Grapes gather in Endora, a mysterious beauty glides through town on a bicycle and rides circles around Gilbert, until he begins to see a new vision of his family and himself....
With this wry portrait of small-town Iowa -- and a young man's life at the crossroads -- Peter Hedges created a classic American novel "charged with sardonic intelligence" (Washington Post Book World).
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- Title What's Eating Gilbert Grape
- Author Peter Hedges
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-11-01
- ISBN 9780671038540 / 0671038540
- Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.9 in (20.83 x 13.46 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Heartland
- Cultural Region: Midwest
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Geographic Orientation: Iowa
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Humorous fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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