Bastard Out of Carolina - Softcover

Allison, Dorothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0606191933 ISBN 13: 9780606191937

Publisher: Demco Media, 2000

Synopsis

Ruth Anne Boatwright, an illegitimate young girl, dreams of escaping her Greenville County, South Carolina, home, her notorious, hard-living family, and the unwanted attentions of her abusive stepfather, Daddy Glen

About this title

Review:

For anyone who has ever felt the contempt of a self-righteous world, this book will resonate within you like a gospel choir. For anyone who hasn't, this book will be an education (Barbara Kingsolver)

Dorothy Allison has an elegantly unpretentious style, raw intensity, and a great big heart. In Bastard out of Carolina she tells a horrific story without malice or self-pity. I read her work with admiration and respect (Blanche McCrary Boyd)

About the Author:

Dorothy Allison is the author of ‘Trash’, a collection of short stories that won two Lambda Literary Awards in 1989, and the autobiographical ‘Two or Three Things I Know for Sure’, both of which are available in Flamingo.

‘Bastard Out of Carolina’, her first novel, was shortlisted for the American National Book Award. She lives in San Francisco.

About this edition

• Publisher: Demco Media
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0606191933
• ISBN 13: 9780606191937
• Binding: Paperback