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    <body><![CDATA[     Greenville, South Carolina.  1950’s.	<br/>“Bone” wasn't just an accident, she was born by one, delivered after her 15-year-old unmarried Mama-to-be Anney was thrown through the windshield of Bone’s drunk Uncle Travis’s Chevy while sleeping in the back seat.  “Mama” survived with ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9582837">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Bastard Out of Carolina is one of those books about which all of the hooplah surrounding it really baffles me. Allison basically plagiarizes herself by, instead of expanding what was a quite good short story she wrote and published in High Risk: An Anthology of Forbidden Writings, simply cutting and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2059317">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Let’s see.  It, at first, seemed like a log of a child’s life, growing up in 1950s (60s? hard to tell; try to figure it out via the music) South Carolina.  All the trials and tribulations of growing up in a single family household, crazy extended family, young mother, et cetera.  Her mother marr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25274009">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[On her web site Dorothy Allison says &quot;What I am here for is to tell you stories you may not want to hear.&quot; <em>Bastard Out of Carolina</em> is definitely a hard story to hear. <br/><br/>It is a beautifully-written semi-autobiographical account of a childhood in 1950s-60s South Carolina. The prota...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7058931">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i have no idea why this book gets so much love. the writing is mediocre, the story construction weak-linked, the point fudged by so much nonsense, it's blurry and romanticized and wrapped in cheap tin foil and smelling of county fair cotton candy. and the mistique of class: i like it just as much as...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7856718">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Tired of being labeled white trash, Ruth Anne Boatwright--a   South Carolina bastard who is attached to the indomitable women in her   mother's family--longs to escape from her hometown, and especially from   Daddy Glen and his mean-spirited jealousy. A first novel. 15,000 first   printing.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[One thing I know for sure is that Bastard out of Carolina is, in the end, a very conservative book. Its focus is on the family. Ruth Anne Boatwright is a girl born the titular bastard to a teenage mother, Annie, and an absent father. The mother remarries after she has another kid with a man who dies...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36327045">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A contemporary classic, this powerful novel is a disturbing tale of child abuse, told with wisdom and restraint.  Allison brilliantly tells the story through the first-person narrative of Bone, a young girl who doesn’t want to believe what’s happening to her, so for the most part she reveals the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27014758">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Greenville County, South Carolina, is home to Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a South Carolina bastard with an annotated birth certificate to tell the tale. Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that will test the loyalty of her mother, Anney. Her stepfather, Daddy Glen, calls Bone &quot;cold as death, mean as a snake, and twice as twisty,&quot; yet Anney needs Glen. At first gentle with Bone, Daddy Glen becomes steadily colder and more furious - until their final, harrowing encounter.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was highly disappointed with this book and all of the hype it created when it came out.  After reading the first few chapters I was drawn in and thought it flowed well but then the author starts on these tangents of character's that are not needed to tell the story.  It came across as filler to me...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14659480">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[awesome book, makes your heart ache. This was a Karina recommendation from years ago, and I loved it. There is an antique store in Darby, MT with the name Boatwright over the door and every time I'd drive by it on the way to the ranch I'd think of this book, my good pal Karina and her staggeringly g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22495380">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I heard about this book for years so felt as though I had no choice but to read it.  It is everything it's cracked up to be: tough, unflinching, and raw. I liked it almost as well as I liked &quot;Going Down Swinging,&quot; by Billie Livingston which also deals with class and mother child relationsh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18447088">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[How do you live in a house with a man who despises you and angrily lusts for you at this same time? Bone, a young scrawny girl, tip toes through this fate as she tries to sidestep her step father while pleasing her mother. We suffer through her agonies through her eyes, trying to understand the acti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41179402">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[dorothy allison has said that she tries to write about the working class much like how flannery o'connor wrote about the middle class, and that makes a lot of sense.<br/><br/>i only just read this even though it takes place in the region where i grew up, reading it mostly for setting as i am curre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40103852">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read a couple of reviews on this book before I committed to read it myself.  That's usually the first step for me.. reading what other people have to say about the book.  Next is reading the first paragraph.  I think if you're bored after the first paragraph, it's pretty telling of how you'll feel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80930844">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book many years ago but have kept it on my bookshelves through many moves (always a good time to edit one's collection)because I think it is such a well written, powerful story...although the subject matter is sometimes horrifying, it is a book I hope my daughter one day will want to rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9148899">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Sentimental and unpleasant.  It's not without some redeeming qualities, but they're not enough even to distract the reader from its more detestable aspects, let alone outweigh them in the final balance.<br/><br/>Good things:  Allison does have a nice ear for the language of her characters, and an ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79617306">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Brilliant.  A classic.  To me, it's all in the voice.  If a novel has a great voice, a memorable voice--which this one does--I'll follow the writer anywhere, even into the dark dark depths of life, which is where this book takes you.  And yet it doesn't take you there without a sense of that enduran...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28678714">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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