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Original Title:	Bastard Out of Carolina
ISBN:	0452287057 (ISBN13: 9780452287051)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Greenville, South Carolina(United States) South Carolina(United States)
Literary Awards:	Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction (1993), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1992)

Bastard Out of Carolina

Dorothy Allison

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 4.11 | 37811 Users | 2668 Reviews

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Title	:	Bastard Out of Carolina
Author	:	Dorothy Allison
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Plume Essential Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	September 6th 2005 by Plume (first published March 1992)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. American. Southern. Young Adult. Coming Of Age. Novels

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Greenville County, South Carolina, is a wild, lush place that is home to the Boatwright family—a tight-knit clan of rough-hewn, hard-drinking men who shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who get married young and age too quickly. At the heart of this story is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a bastard child who observes the world around her with a mercilessly keen perspective. When her stepfather Daddy Glen, "cold as death, mean as a snake," becomes increasingly more vicious toward her, Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that tests the loyalty of her mother, Anney—and leads to a final, harrowing encounter from which there can be no turning back.

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I was really looking forward to some Southern Comfort with a side serving of White Trash to Gari gargle with, after a longish bout of classic literature. Its necessary, when one finds oneself saying wherwithal and henceforth in all seriousness. Over a pint. But Dorothy Allison doesnt deliver what she promises on the label. There is, forsooth (oops, there I go again), no White Trash qualia here at all. No madness, no real violence (save for two scenes towards the end), no drunkenness, no nothing.

Dorothy Allison pissed a few people off when she first wrote this novel. Boy am I glad she did. Why should literature seek to please, rather than excite the reader? Why should it try to be polite in order to seek the truth? Should books not produce composed disorder, honest diatribes, and gut-wrenching truths? Insult me, make me angry, make me laugh, make me cry, leave my mouth agape from disbelief at your crude renunciations of what I thought was orthodox--all things that good books do. In

Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/ Theres need, she said. God knows theres need. Her voice was awesome, biblical. God knows. Bastard Out of Carolina had been on my TBR for an age due its prevalence on the annual Banned Books List. Im not quite sure why I never got around to reading it before now, but since Ive rectified that situation I would be a strong proponent for this being taught as a companion piece to To Kill A Mockingbird in high school literature classes.

I guess I never got the memo. I didn't realize that this was one of the most depressing tales of physical and sexual abuse. I had always looked forward to reading this novel and had the impression it was an empowering, coming-of-age story of a girl who triumphs over poverty and place.No triumph. Just lots of stomach clenching scenes and dread in my heart and intestines. This was ever so painful for me to read, despite some moments of powerful and memorable writing.And, who'd a thunk it? For the

'I had wanted to laugh at everyone, Raylene and the nurses, all of them watching me like some fragile piece of glass, ready to shatter around boiling water. I was boiling inside. I was cooking away. I was who I was going to be, and she was a terrible person.'A word of warning right from the start if you are sensitive to physical, sexual and mental abuse than this book may be one you will wan't to avoid. Narrated by Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright, this a harrowing story of a dysfunctional but loving

This book is beautifully written, but I did not enjoy it. It is a grim story of poverty, child abuse and rape. The prose may be lovely but the drama is harrowing."Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies."Bastard Out of Carolina is the story of Ruth Anne Boatwright, but everyone calls her Bone. She was born out of wedlock and doesn't know who her daddy is. Her mama tried several times to get the word "illegitimate" removed from Bone's birth certificate, but the

Shitty book. Not badly written-characters not flat or cardboard. So I really had to ask myself, "Why is this book so bad? Why did I dislike it so much?" Answer: because it's boring. Sure, stuff happens. It's not logged down with too much detail, or badly executed, or anything like that. The story, the events, the plot itself, is one of the most boring I've ever came across.We have this little girl. She's born into bad circumstances, and that's okay. But then bad shit happens to her. Again.