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Written & audio book performed by Dorothy Allison - Abridged Fiction - 2 CASSETTES - 3 hours

Publisher, HighBridge Audio (1992)

THE EXtrAORDINARY STORY OF A YOUNG GIRL CAUGHT UP IN FAMILY VIOLENCE, INCEST, AND REDEMPTION

"Allison manages a rare feat: a child narrator who delivers her raw truth in remarkable, beautiful, original language…. One of those unusual books that show childhood abuse without sentimentality… Riveting." --Boston Phoenix

"A hell of a writer." --The Village Voice

"Evocative, vivid, compelling…. Allison joins the ranks of such enduring Southern writers as Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Tennessee Williams, and William Faulkner." --New York Quarterly

From 500 Great Books by Women review by Jesse Larsen: At her birth in Greenville, South Carolina, Ruth Anne Boatwright is nick-named Bone because she is so long and skinny. Because her Mama is fifteen and single when Bone is born, a stamp in "oversized red-inked block letters" reading "Illegitimate" blots the bottom of Bone's birth certificate, and Bone's Mama never gives up her efforts to have this stamp removed. The Boatwright family is large and stormy, especially Bone's talented, handsome, hard-drinking, womanizing uncles. Granny Boatwright and her daughters are known for how beautiful they used to be, before too many children and not enough money carved deep lines into their faces and bent their backs. Bone understands and supports her Mama's desperate need for love until it leaves Bone with scars that won't go away. Bastard Out of Carolina is an emotionally stunning story of criminally familiar pain; of the strength and struggle it takes to survive it; and of the importance of having at least one person smart enough to tell you to "get out there and do things, girl. Make people nervous and make your old aunt glad."

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