Bastard out of Carolina
Dorothy Allison (Author)
"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 young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this astonishing novel is Ruth Anne Boatright, 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 loaylty of her mother, Anney. Her step-father, 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. Written 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 mergence of an extra-ordinarily gifted writer."--Page 4 of cover
Print Book, English, 1993
Plume, New York, 1993