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Ellen Foster (Oprah's Book Club)
Ellen Foster (Oprah's Book Club)
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"Filled with lively humor, compassion, and intimacy."
—Alice Hoffman, The New York Times Book Review
"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy." With that opening sentence, we enter the childhood world of one of the most appealing young heroines in contemporary fiction.
Her courage, her humor, and her wisdom are unforgettable as she tells her own story with stunning honesty and insight.
An Oprah Book Club selection, this powerful novel has become an American classic.
Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction.
Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Binding: Paperback
Copyright Date: 2012
Pub Date: October 17, 2012
Physical Info: 0.5" H x 8.1" L x 5.4" W (0.35 lbs) 144 pages
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About The Author:
Kaye Gibbons was born in Nash County, North Carolina, and attended Rocky Mount Senior High School, North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her first novel, Ellen Foster, was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction of the American Academy and Institute of the Arts and Letters and a special citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation. She has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and was recently awarded the PEN/Revson Fellowship for A Cure for Dreams. She is writer-in-residence at the Library of North Carolina State University. She and her husband, Michael, and their three daughters Mary, Leslie, and Louise, live in Raleigh.
