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Kaye Gibbons
Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction. An eleven-year-old heroine tells her unforgettable story with honesty, perceptivity, humor, and unselfconscious heroism. "The honesty of thought and eye and feeling and word!"--Eudora Welty; "A lovely, breathtaking, sometimes heart-wrenching first novel."--Walker Percy. A LITERARY GUILD SELECTION.
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Author
Kaye Gibbons
Pages
134
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Published Date
2012-01-01
ISBN
1616203021 9781616203023
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"A very simple read, but I’m left confused why the racial prejudices of the book take such a prominent role in the last few pages. For such a short work, so many storylines seem unresolved and unnecessary. Still a charming book to read quickly."
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