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Bastard Out of Carolina
Dorothy Allison

Bastard Out of Carolina

Dutton (Apr 30, 1992)
9780525934257
| Hardcover
309 pages | 6 x 9 inch | English
$ 20.00
Dewey 813.54
LC Classification PS3551.L453 .B37 1992
LC Control No. 91034607

Genre

  • Fiction

Subject

  • Child Abuse
  • Child Abuse/ Fiction
  • Greenville County (S.C.)
  • Lesbians/ Fiction
  • Poverty/ Fiction

Plot

Tired of being labeled white trash, Ruth Anne Boatwright--a South Carolina bastard who is attached to the indomitable women in her mother's family--longs to escape from her hometown, and especially from Daddy Glen and his mean-spirited jealousy. A first novel. 15,000 first printing.