Ellen Foster (Oprah's Book Club)
$38.27
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
17 October 2012
Summary
Filled with lively humor, compassion, and intimacy. — Alice Hoffman, The New York Times Book Review
“When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy.” With that opening sentence we enter the childhood world of one of the most appealing young heroines in contemporary fiction. Her courage, her humor, and her wisdom are unforgettable as she tells her own story with stunning honesty and insight.
An Oprah Book Club selection, this powerful novel has become an Amer…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781616203023 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1616203021 |
| Author: | Kaye Gibbons |
| Publisher: | Workman Publishing |
| Imprint: | Algonquin Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 17 October 2012 |
| Weight: | 120g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 136mm x 12mm |
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About The Author
Kaye Gibbons
Kaye Gibbons was born in Nash County, North Carolina. She attended Rocky Mount Senior High School, North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Her first novel, Ellen Foster, was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction of the American Academy and Institute of the Arts and Letters and a special citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation. She has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and was recently awarded the PEN/Revson Fellowship for A Cure for Dreams.
She is writer-in-residence at the Library of North Carolina State University. She and her husband, Michael, and their three daughters, Mary, Leslie, and Louise, live in Raleigh.
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