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Title details for Ellen Foster (Oprah's Book Club) by Kaye Gibbons - Available

Ellen Foster (Oprah's Book Club)

by Kaye Gibbons
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"Filled with lively humor, compassion, and intimacy."
—Alice Hoffman, The New York Times Book Review
"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy." With that opening sentence we enter the childhood world of one of the most appealing young heroines in contemporary fiction. Her courage, her humor, and her wisdom are unforgettable as she tells her own story with stunning honesty and insight. An Oprah Book Club selection, this powerful novel has become an American classic.
Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction. 
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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Kindle Book

  • Release date: October 17, 2012

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  • ISBN: 9781616203085
  • Release date: October 17, 2012

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781616203085
  • File size: 2025 KB
  • Release date: October 17, 2012

Formats

Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Classic Literature Fiction

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:870
Text Difficulty:4-5

"Filled with lively humor, compassion, and intimacy."
—Alice Hoffman, The New York Times Book Review
"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy." With that opening sentence we enter the childhood world of one of the most appealing young heroines in contemporary fiction. Her courage, her humor, and her wisdom are unforgettable as she tells her own story with stunning honesty and insight. An Oprah Book Club selection, this powerful novel has become an American classic.
Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction. 
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Classic Literature Fiction