Dorothy Allison
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born
April 11, 1949
in The United States
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Bastard Out of Carolina — published 1992 — 21 editions |
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Cavedweller — published 1337 — 9 editions |
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Trash — 7 editions |
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Two or Three Things I Know for Sure — 7 editions |
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Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature — published 1994 — 3 editions |
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Bastard Out of Carolina / Two or Three Things I Know For Sure — published 1995 — 2 editions |
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The Women Who Hate Me Poetry 1980-1990 — published 1983 — 4 editions |
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Best of Tin House: Stories — published 2006 |
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Catherine Opie: American Photographer by Dorothy Allison, Jennifer Blessing, Nat Trotman — published 2008 |
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A Reader's Guide to the Works of Dorothy Allison: Cavedweller, Bastard Out of Carolina, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure — published 2000 |
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“Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”
― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.”
― Dorothy Allison
― Dorothy Allison
“The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.”
― Dorothy Allison
― Dorothy Allison
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