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Ellen Foster
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, October 1997: Kaye Gibbons is a writer who brings a short story sensibility to her novels. Rather than take advantage of the novel's longer form to paint her visions in broad, sweeping strokes, Gibbons prefers to concentrate on just one corner of the canvas and only a few colors to produce her small masterpieces.... »
A Virtuous Woman (Oprah's Book Club)
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Oprah Book Club® Selection, October 1997: Gibbons's novel, A Virtuous Woman, takes place in the same hardscrabble part of the world as Ellen Foster. The virtuous woman is Ruby Pitt Woodrow, a woman who might have ended up like Ellen Foster's mother if fate, in the shape of Jack Stokes, hadn't crossed her path. The daughter of ... »
Charms for the Easy Life (P.S.)
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As I read this book I kept waiting for some catastrophic event to occur, but it never does. The author gives you great characters that live an unconventional life for that time period, yet nothing happens to them. They go about their lives doing good deeds and you the reader are just peering into there goody goody routines. The characters are very we... »
The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster
The cynical view of Kaye Gibbons's The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster would be that the Poor Little Match Girl has morphed into Cinderella. ... »
A Cure for Dreams
This is a wonderful, entertaining novel of women relationships. It is set in the rural South. I really enjoyed it.... »
The Best American Essays of the Century
The title The Best American Essays of the Century seems transparent enough, but don't be deceived. What Joyce Carol Oates has assembled is not so ... »
The Awakening and Other Stories (Modern Library
I had been urged to read "The Awakening" several times, and had heard the word "classic" used to describe this book, so I thought I'd check it out. And w... »
On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
Polly Holliday of TV's Home Improvement won a Tony nomination on Broadway playing Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and she makes Clarice, ... »
Sights Unseen
This book is the story of Hattie. Her mother has a severe mental illness. Hattie cannot bond with her mother, nor can she feel normal love and affection. ... »
Divining Women (P.S.)
I've read several other books by Gibbons and enjoyed them. I listened to this one on audio cd, and I have to completely agree with the reviewer who said ... »
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