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May 7, 2012 · Ellen Foster : a novel by Gibbons, Kaye, 1960-Publication date 1987 Topics Children of alcoholics, Foster parents, Girls, Children of alcoholics Fiction, Foster ...
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Jan 21, 1987 · Kaye Gibbons was born in 1960 in Nash County, North Carolina, on Bend of the River Road. She attended North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying American and English literature. At twenty-six years old, she wrote her first novel, Ellen Foster. Praised as an extraordinary debut, Eudora Welty ...
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Ellen Foster. Kaye Gibbons. Perfection Learning, 1997 - Fiction. "When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy." So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kay Gibbons's first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from ...
Kaye Gibbons. Vintage Books, 1990 - Biography & Autobiography - 126 pages. In Ellen Foster, the title character is an 11-year-old orphan who refers to herself as "old Ellen," an appellation that is disturbingly apt. Ellen is an old woman in a child's body; her frail, unhappy mother dies, her abusive father alternately neglects her and makes ...
Ellen Foster, published in 1987, is the debut novel of American author Kaye Gibbons. The novel is a first-person narrative that follows the eponymous Ellen Foster as she navigates a tumultuous childhood marked by abuse, neglect, and the death of her mother. The novel explores themes of resilience, family, and identity, capturing Ellen’s ...
Ellen Foster is the 10-year-old protagonist of the novel. She suffers physical abuse, sexual abuse and psychological abuse from her alcoholic father and after her mother commits suicide, is tossed around from one household to another.
