Bastard Out Of Carolina A Novel 9th Edition Dorothy Allison by Dorothy Allison 9781101007174, 1101007176 instant download after payment.

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

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The publication of Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina was a landmark event that won the author a National Book Award nomination & 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 & language of poor whites in the South. Since its appearance, the novel has inspired an award-winning film & has been banned from libraries & classrooms, championed by fans, & 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, & indomitable women who get married young & 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—& leads to a final, harrowing encounter from which there can be no turning back.

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This autobiographical novel about a young girl in the rural South facing abuse & betrayal won high critical acclaim & a National Book Award nomination upon its release in 1992. The power of Bastard Out of Carolina is simultaneously narrative, emotional, & political. “The novel is mean,” Allison says, “meant to rip off all that facade of imagination & lies we place around sexual violence & children.”