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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100452269571
ISBN-139780452269576
eBay Product ID (ePID)299636
Product Key Features
Book TitleBastard Out of Carolina
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1993
TopicLgbt / Lesbian, Family Life, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorDorothy Allison
Book SeriesContemporary Fiction, Plume Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight9.1 Oz
Item Length7.9 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN91-034607
Dewey Edition20
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Grade ToUP
SynopsisGreenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright family—rough-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 furious—until their final, harrowing encounter, from which there can be no turning back.