Bastard out of Carolina
Allison, Dorothy
Bastard out of Carolina / Dorothy Allison - New York : Plume , 1993, c1992. - 309 p. ; 23 cm.
Greenville 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.
9780452269576
91034607
Child abuse----Fiction
Lesbians----Fiction
Poverty----Fiction
Greenville County (S.C.)----Fiction
Domestic fiction
Allegories
PS3551.L453 / B37 1992
FIC ALL
Bastard out of Carolina / Dorothy Allison - New York : Plume , 1993, c1992. - 309 p. ; 23 cm.
Greenville 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.
9780452269576
91034607
Child abuse----Fiction
Lesbians----Fiction
Poverty----Fiction
Greenville County (S.C.)----Fiction
Domestic fiction
Allegories
PS3551.L453 / B37 1992
FIC ALL
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