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Jul 7, 2020 · Bastard Out of Carolina. Audio CD – CD, July 7, 2020. A modern literary classic, now available in a 20th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author. The publication of Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina was a landmark event. The novel's profound portrait of family dynamics in the rural South won the author a National Book ...
- Dorothy Allison
Summary. Bastard Out of Carolina is the story of a young South Carolina girl’s childhood, which, though blighted by illegitimacy, poverty, and her stepfather’s abuse, is made bearable by the ...
The publication of Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina was a landmark event that won the author a National Book Award nomination and launched her into the literary spotlight. Critics have likened Allison to Harper Lee, naming her the first writer of her generation to dramatize the lives and language of poor whites in the South.
Bastard Out of Carolina Summary. Ruth Anne "Bone" Boatwright is born to fifteen-year-old Anney Boatwright in Greenville, South Carolina. The word “illegitimate,” stamped in red ink on Bone’s birth certificate, eats at Anney’s pride and she struggles unsuccessfully to get an unmarked copy. Bone comes of age surrounded by the Boatwrights ...
May 17, 1996 · Bastard Out of Carolina. An absorbing, sometimes wrenching tale of growing up poor and abused in the 1950s South, "Bastard Out of Carolina" is a handsome, thoughtful picture that may benefit from ...
When Bastard Out of Carolina was published by Dutton in 1992, Allison achieved mainstream success. Bastard was greeted with rave reviews from the Village Voice, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The New York Times Book Review, and nominated for the National Book Award.
Dec 15, 1996 · A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance. Anjelica Huston. Director. Anne Meredith.
