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Bastard Out of Carolina
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Bastard Out of Carolina Hardcover - 1992

by Allison, Dorothy

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New York: Dutton, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Novel. Finalist for the National Book Award.
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Details

  • Title Bastard Out of Carolina
  • Author Allison, Dorothy
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 309
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dutton, New York
  • Date 1992
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 000020
  • ISBN 9780525934257 / 0525934251
  • Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.81 x 5.83 x 1.09 in (22.38 x 14.81 x 2.77 cm)
  • Reading level 900
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Allegories
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91034607
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

Essential Edition handsomely packaged with french flaps, rough fronts, high-quality paper, and a distinctive cover lookGreenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright family-rough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this astonishing novel is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a South Carolina bastard with an annotated birth certificate to tell the tale. Observing everything with the mercilessly keen eye of a child, Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that will test the loyalty of her mother, Anney. Her stepfather, Daddy Glen, calls Bone "cold as death, mean as a snake, and twice as twisty," yet Anney needs Glen. At first gentle with Bone, Daddy Glen becomes steadily colder and more furious-until their final, harrowing encounter, from which there can be no turning back.

From the publisher

Dorothy Allison is the acclaimed author of the nationally bestselling novel Bastard Out of Carolina, which was a finalist for the 1992 National Book Award. The recipient of numerous awards, she lives in Northern California.

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