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Bastard out of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0525934251
- ISBN 13
- 9780525934257
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dutton, 1992. Book. Fine. Hardback. Stated First printing.. New York: Dutton, 1992. Stated First Printing. Fine/Fine. Collectible quality stated First Printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean gray boards with pale gray cloth spine, silver lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 309 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Novel set in a small town in South Carolina as seen through the eyes of a young girl..
Synopsis
Greenville 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.
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027315
- Title
- Bastard out of Carolina
- Author
- Dorothy Allison
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- Stated First printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0525934251
- ISBN 13
- 9780525934257
- Publisher
- Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- FICTION, NOVEL, DOROTHY ALLISON, FIRST EDITION
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