| Author: | Kaye Gibbons | ISBN: | 9781616203085 |
| Publisher: | Algonquin Books | Publication: | October 17, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Algonquin Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Kaye Gibbons |
| ISBN: | 9781616203085 |
| Publisher: | Algonquin Books |
| Publication: | October 17, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Algonquin Books |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
