Bastard out of Carolina

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"Compulsively readable Allison can make an ordinary moment iranscendenl with her sensuous mix of kitchen-sink realism and down-home drawl."—san francisco chronicle
Greenville County, South Carolina, is a wild, lush place of black walnut trees and weeping willows, of sweet tea served on shaded porches. It is also home to the Boatwright family—rough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who marry yoimg 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 "like a strong woman needs meat between her teeth." At first gentle with Bone,... Tovább

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"Compulsively readable Allison can make an ordinary moment iranscendenl with her sensuous mix of kitchen-sink realism and down-home drawl."—san francisco chronicle
Greenville County, South Carolina, is a wild, lush place of black walnut trees and weeping willows, of sweet tea served on shaded porches. It is also home to the Boatwright family—rough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who marry yoimg 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 "like a strong woman needs meat between her teeth." 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.
^^itten in a mesmerizing voice that mingles the languid rhythms of country music with raw, unsparing descriptions of emotional and physical violence, this moving novel marks the emergence of an extraordinarily gifted writer.
A hell of a writer—tough and loose, clear and compassionate . . . Allison has turned the rage she describes so brilliantly into a compressed and exacting language that need never raise its voice to grab our attention." —the village voice Vissza