Kaye Gibbons
1) Ellen Foster
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Ellen Foster duology volume 1
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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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In her darkest yet most redeeming novel, Gibbons scorches us with a Þrestorm of despair-and then resurrects love and hope from its very ashes.
Autumn 1918: Rumors of peace are spreading across America, but spreading even faster are the first cases of Spanish influenza, whispering of the epidemic to come. Maureen Ross, well past a safe childbearing age, is experiencing a difficult pregnancy. Her husband, Troop-cold and careless of her...
Autumn 1918: Rumors of peace are spreading across America, but spreading even faster are the first cases of Spanish influenza, whispering of the epidemic to come. Maureen Ross, well past a safe childbearing age, is experiencing a difficult pregnancy. Her husband, Troop-cold and careless of her...
3) Ellen Foster
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Ellen Foster duology volume 1
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"Cuando era pequeña pensaba en cómo matar a mi padre." Así comienza Ellen Foster, una de las contadas obras cuya protagonista, al igual que el Huckleberry Finn de Mark Twain o la Pecola Breedlove de Toni Morrison, ha entrado por derecho propio en la cultura popular norteamericana.
Ellen es una niña de once años que, haciendo gala de una inteligencia y una determinación fuera de lo común, busca su lugar en el mundo mientras todo se tambalea...
6) Ellen Foster
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Having suffered abuse and misfortune for most of her life, a young girl searches for a better life and finally finds it in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.