Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel

Description

Essential Edition handsomely packaged with french flaps, rough fronts, high-quality paper, and a distinctive cover lookGreenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright family-rough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this astonishing novel is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a South Carolina bastard with an annotated birth certificate to tell the tale. Observing everything with the mercilessly keen eye of a child, Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that will test the loyalty of her mother, Anney. Her stepfather, Daddy Glen, calls Bone "cold as death, mean as a snake, and twice as twisty," yet Anney needs Glen. At first gentle with Bone, Daddy Glen becomes steadily colder and more furious-until their final, harrowing encounter, from which there can be no turning back.

First Sentence

I've been called Bone all my life, but my name's Ruth Anne.

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Other Editions

• Bastard Out of Carolina: A NovelPenguin Books2012-02-01
• Bastard out of CarolinaDutton1992-01-01
• Bastard out of CarolinaPaperbackDUTTON1992-08-30
• Bastard out of CarolinaFlamingo1993-01-01
• Bastard out of CarolinaPlume1993-03-01
• Bastard Out of CarolinaPaperbackDemco Media1993-11-15