Author: Dorothy Allison
Category: Adult Fiction
Published: 1992
Genre: Family/Personal Drama, Literature
Pages: 309
Summary on Goodreads: Greenville 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 up 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.
Other things the author has written: Trash
Cavedweller
Two or Three Things I Know For Sure
Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature
The Women Who Hate Me Poetry 1980-1990
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