buy the book from amazon

Flag    Amazon UK



Browse Similar Books at Amazon
Literature & Fiction->United States
Literature & Fiction->Literary
Literature & Fiction->Genre Fiction->Coming of Age
Kindle Store->Kindle eBooks->Literature & Fiction->Genre Fiction->Coming of Age
Kindle Store->Kindle eBooks->Literature & Fiction->Contemporary Fiction->Literary
Kindle Store->Kindle eBooks->Literature & Fiction->Literary Fiction->LGBT
Literature & Fiction->Genre Fiction->Small Town & Rural
Kindle Store->Kindle eBooks->Literature & Fiction->Small Town & Rural


Description
A profound portrait of family dynamics in the rural South and “an essential novel” (The New Yorker)

“As close to flawless as any reader could ask for . . . The living language [Allison] has created is as exact and innovative as the language of To Kill a Mockingbird and The Catcher in the Rye. -- The New York Times Book Review

One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

The publication of Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina was a landmark event that won the author a National Book Award nomination and launched her into the literary spotlight. Critics have likened Allison to 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.
CERTAIN CONTENT THAT APPEARS ON THIS PAGE COMES FROM AMAZON. THIS CONTENT IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’ AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR REMOVAL AT ANY TIME.