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Ruby Pitt rejects the quiet life planned for her by her adoring family and runs off with John Woodrow, a migrant worker who turns out to be a cruel and violently abusive liar. When he dies in a street brawl, Ruby takes up with Blinking Jack Stokes, a quiet, uneducated, but highly capable tenant twenty years her senior. He is surprised as anyone when she agrees to marry him.
Kaye Gibbons conjures up a vivid portrait of an unlikely, but successful marriage set against a land that connects past troubles and present loss with future hopes.
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Full of fantastically gritty metaphors, and with strains of class and race stretching like a fragile elastic band... a book that will change your dreams if not your life. (OBSERVER)
An exquisitely realised piece of writing. (Elizabeth Buchan, MAIL ON SUNDAY)
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An exquisitely realised piece of writing. (Elizabeth Buchan, MAIL ON SUNDAY)
Kaye Gibbons has received the Sue Kaufman Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a Nationalal Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, The Chicago Tribune's Hearland Prize, a Citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, amongst other honours.
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- PublisherVirago
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 1860491154
- ISBN 13 9781860491153
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- Number of pages176
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