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Häftad, Svenska, 2021
275 kr
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Greenville County, South Carolina, är en vild, frodig plats som är hem för familjen Boatwright, en tätt sammanflätad klan av grovhuggna och tungt alkoholiserade män som anser att allt kan lösas med ett hagelgevär eller en träpåk, och okuvliga kvinnor som gifter sig unga och åldras för tidigt. I centrum för denna berättelse befinner sig Ruth Anne Boatwright, en flicka som alla kallar Bone, ett utomäktenskapligt barn som får uppleva världen på ett skoningslöst sätt. När hennes styvfar Glen, ”kall som döden, elak som en orm”, blir alltmer brutal mot henne, finner Bone sig själv i ett triangeldrama som prövar hennes mor Anneys lojalitet som leder till en slutgiltig och skakande sammandrabbning från vilken en väg tillbaka är omöjlig.
OM FÖRFATTAREN: Dorothy Allison växte upp i Greenville, South Carolina, som första barnet till en ogift femtonårig mor som arbetade som servitris. Som den första i familjen att ta examen från gymnasiet, fortsatte sedan Allison att studera vid Florida Presbyterian College (numera Eckerd College) på ett National Merit Scholarship och studerade antropologi på New School for Social Research. Allisons skillingtryck med poesi, The Women Who Hate Me, publicerades 1983. Hennes novellsamling Trash kom 1988, följt av Bastard Out of Carolina. Romanen blev finalist i 1992 års National Book Award, den fick Ferro Grumley Prize och en ALA Award för Lesbian and Gay Writing. Romanen blev också översatt till ett dussintal språk och gjordes även till en prisbelönad film. Cavedweller, Allisons andra roman blev en nationell bästsäljare, fick New York Times Notable Book, och sattes upp på teater och blev även den till film. 2007 mottog Allison Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction och är medlem i styrelsen för the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
149 kr
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'About as close to flawless as any reader could ask for' The New York Times Book Review'For anyone who has ever felt the contempt of a self-righteous world, this book will resonate within you like a gospel choir. For anyone who hasn't, this book will be an education' Barbara Kingsolver Carolina in the 1950s, and Bone - christened Ruth Anna Boatwright - lives a happy life, in and out of her aunt's houses, playing with her cousins on the porch, sipping ice tea, loving her little sister Reece and her beautiful young mother. But Glen Waddell has been watching them all, wanting her mother too, and when he promises a new life for the family, her mother gratefully accepts. Soon Bone finds herself in a different, terrible world, living in fear, and an exile from everything she knows. Bastard Out of Carolina is a raw, poignant tale of fury, power, love and family.This editon contains an introduction by the author. Dorothy Allison was awarded the 2007 Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction, and has been likened to Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner and Harper Lee.
Häftad, Engelska, 1996
176 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 1999
445 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2002
357 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2012
245 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 2012100 kr
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'About as close to flawless as any reader could ask for' The New York Times Book Review'For anyone who has ever felt the contempt of a self-righteous world, this book will resonate within you like a gospel choir. For anyone who hasn't, this book will be an education' Barbara Kingsolver Carolina in the 1950s, and Bone - christened Ruth Anna Boatwright - lives a happy life, in and out of her aunt's houses, playing with her cousins on the porch, sipping ice tea, loving her little sister Reece and her beautiful young mother. But Glen Waddell has been watching them all, wanting her mother too, and when he promises a new life for the family, her mother gratefully accepts. Soon Bone finds herself in a different, terrible world, living in fear, and an exile from everything she knows. Bastard Out of Carolina is a raw, poignant tale of fury, power, love and family.This editon contains an introduction by the author. Dorothy Allison was awarded the 2007 Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction, and has been likened to Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner and Harper Lee.
E-bok
Engelska, 2002114 kr
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Trash, Allison''s landmark collection, laid the groundwork for her critically acclaimed Bastard Out of Carolina, the National Book Award finalist that was hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "simply stunning...a wonderful work of fiction by a major talent." In addition to Allison''s classic stories, this new edition of Trash features "Stubborn Girls and Mean Stories," an introduction in which Allison discusses the writing of Trash and "Compassion," a never-before-published short story.First published in 1988, the award-winning Trash showcases Allison at her most fearlessly honest and startlingly vivid. The limitless scope of human emotion and experience are depicted in stories that give aching and eloquent voice to the terrible wounds we inflict on those closest to us. These are tales of loss and redemption; of shame and forgiveness; of love and abuse and the healing power of storytelling. A book that resonates with uncompromising candor and incandescence, Trash is sure to captivate Allison''s legion of readers and win her a devoted new following.
E-bok
Engelska, 199997 kr
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From the author of the "flawless" (The New York Times Book Review) classic Bastard Out of Carolina comes Cavedweller, once again demonstrating Allison''s umatched strengths as a storyteller. Reading "like a thematic sequel" (The New Yorker) to her first novel, Cavedweller tackles questions of forgiveness, mother-daughter bonds, and the strength of the human spirit.When Delia Byrd packs up her old Datsun and her daughter Cissy and gets on the Santa Monica Freeway heading south and east, she is leaving everything she has known for ten years: the tinsel glitter of the rock ''n'' roll world; her dreams of singing and songwriting; and a life lived on credit cards and whiskey with a man who made promises he couldn''t keep. Delia Byrd is going back to Cayro, Georgia, to reclaim her life--and the two daughters she left behind...Told in the incantatory voice of one of America''s most eloquent storytellers, Cavedweller is a sweeping novel of the human spirit, the lost and hidden recesses of the heart, and the place where violence and redemption intersect.
E-bok
Engelska, 1996120 kr
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Bastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation. Now, in Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, she takes a probing look at her family''s history to give us a lyrical, complex memoir that explores how the gossip of one generation can become legends for the next. Illustrated with photographs from the author''s personal collection, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure tells the story of the Gibson women -- sisters, cousins, daughters, and aunts -- and the men who loved them, often abused them, and, nonetheless, shared their destinies. With luminous clarity, Allison explores how desire surprises and what power feels like to a young girl as she confronts abuse. As always, Dorothy Allison is provocative, confrontational, and brutally honest. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, steeped in the hard-won wisdom of experience, expresses the strength of her unique vision with beauty and eloquence.
E-bok
Engelska, 2013221 kr
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A collection of critical essays from award-winning author Dorothy Allison about identity, gender politics, and queer theory, now with a new prefaceLambda Award and American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Award–winning author Dorothy Allison is known for her bold and insightful writing on issues of class and sexuality. In Skin, she approaches these topics through twenty-three impassioned essays that explore her identity—from her childhood in a poor family in South Carolina to her adult life as a lesbian in the suburbs of New York—and her sexuality. In “Gun Crazy,” Allison delves into what guns meant to the men and women around her when she was growing up. She gives insight into the importance of speaking professionally about sexuality in “Talking to Straight People,” and articulates the danger women feel about revealing their personal desires, even within feminist communities, in “Public Silence, Private Terror.” Allison is fearless in her discussion of many social and political taboos. Compelling and raw, Skin is an honest and intimate work—perfect for Dorothy Allison fans and new readers alike.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
1 416 kr
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Since the publication of her groundbreaking novel, Bastard Out of Carolina (1992), Dorothy Allison (b. 1949) has been known--as with Larry Brown and Lee Smith--as a purveyor of the ""gritty"" contemporary South that, in many ways, is worlds away from prevailing ""Southern Gothic"" representations of the region. Allison has frequently used her position, through passionate lectures and enthusiastic interviews, to give voice to issues dear to her: poverty, working-class life, domestic violence, feminism and women's relationships, the contemporary South, and gay/lesbian life. Often called a ""writer-rock star"" and a ""cult icon,"" Allison is a true performer of the written word. At the same time, Allison also takes the craft of writing very seriously. In this collection, spanning almost two decades, Allison the performer and Allison the careful craftsperson both emerge, creating a portrait of a complex woman. The interviews detail Allison's working-class background in Greenville, South Carolina, as the daughter of a waitress. Allison discusses--with candor and quick wit--her upbringing, her work in a variety of modes (novels, short stories, essays, poetry), and her active participation in the women's movement of the 1970s. In the absence of a biography of Allison's life, Conversations with Dorothy Allison presents Allison's perspectives on her life, literature, and her conflictions over her role as a public figure. Linking her work with African American writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison, Allison pioneered the genre of working-class literature, writing a world that is often overlooked and under-studied.