Kaye Gibbons
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born
January 01, 1960
gender
female
place of birth
North Carolina, The United States
genre
Literature & Fiction
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Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons avg rating 3.62 — 4,070 ratings — published 1987 23 editions |
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A Virtuous Woman (Oprah's Book Club) by Kaye Gibbons avg rating 3.40 — 1,708 ratings — published 1989 14 editions |
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Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons avg rating 4.00 — 1,384 ratings — published 1995 13 editions |
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On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon: A Novel by Kaye Gibbons avg rating 3.64 — 453 ratings — published 1998 11 editions |
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A Cure for Dreams by Kaye Gibbons avg rating 3.67 — 316 ratings — published 1991 4 editions |
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Sights Unseen: A Novel by Kaye Gibbons avg rating 3.63 — 316 ratings — published 1995 12 editions |
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The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons avg rating 2.90 — 374 ratings — published 2005 7 editions |
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Divining Women by Kaye Gibbons avg rating 3.62 — 251 ratings — published 1997 14 editions |
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Christmas in the South: Holiday Stories from the South's Best Writers by Kaye Gibbons avg rating 2.50 — 2 ratings — published 2004 |
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The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2006 |
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"It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad,
they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.
From 'A Virtuous Woman'."
— Kaye Gibbons
they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.
From 'A Virtuous Woman'."
— Kaye Gibbons
"You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him."
— Kaye Gibbons (Charms for the Easy Life)
— Kaye Gibbons (Charms for the Easy Life)
"The fact that he had foamed at the mouth immediately upon dying, indicated that he had a great back jam of wishes and desires and truths that were never spoken...out bubbled all the words he had swallowed when he was alive."
— Kaye Gibbons (Charms for the Easy Life)
— Kaye Gibbons (Charms for the Easy Life)
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