Bastard out of Carolina / Dorothy Allison.
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TextPublication details: New York : Plume, 1993, c1992.Description: 309 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0452269571 (pbk.)
- 9780452269576 (pbk.)
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Main Library | Fiction | Allison, Dorothy | Available | Some middle pages have water damage | 33111005742081 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Greenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright familyÂrough-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 furiousÂuntil their final, harrowing encounter, from which there can be no turning back.
"A Plume book."
"First Plume printing, March 1993"--T.p. verso.
Originally published: New York : Dutton, 1992.
Bone, an illegitimate child in a family of social outcasts, sees her mother's happiness with her new husband and will not tell when the stepfather begins abusing her in the 1950s.