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Kaye Gibbons
KAYE GIBBONS is the author of eight novels, including Ellen Foster, A Virtuous Woman and Divining Women. With domestic sales of more than 4.2 million copies and numerous worldwide translations, she was designated "one of the most lyrical writers working today" by Entertainment Weekly. She lives in Raleigh, NC with her 3 daughters.
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The Awakening and Other Stories
Written by Kate Chopin, Edited by Nina Baym, Introduction by Kaye Gibbons
Modern Library | Trade Paperback | November 2000
$7.95/10.50(Canada) | 978-0-679-78333-6 (0-679-78333-4)
The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and... Read more
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A Cure for Dreams
Written by Kaye Gibbons
Vintage | Trade Paperback | June 1992
$13.00/16.00(Canada) | 978-0-679-73672-1 (0-679-73672-7)
In her novels Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman, Kaye Gibbons has compiled what one critic has called "a fictional oral history of female wishes [and] hopes." That tradition continues in A Cure for Dreams, a richly woven story that traces the bonds between four generations of Southern women through stories... Read more
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Ellen Foster
Written by Kaye Gibbons
Vintage | Trade Paperback | November 1997
$11.95/16.95(Canada) | 978-0-375-70305-8 (0-375-70305-5)
"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy." So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kay Gibbons's first novel, which won... Read more
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The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster
Written by Kaye Gibbons, Read by Kaye Gibbons
Random House Audio | Unabridged Compact Disc | December 2005
$29.95/42.00(Canada) | 978-0-7393-2190-4 (0-7393-2190-0)
This sequel to Gibbons' beloved classic Ellen Foster, stands on its own as an unforgettable portrait of a redoubtable adolescent making herself up out of whole cloth. Now fifteen, Ellen is settled into a permanent home with a new mother. Strengthened by adversity and blessed with enough intelligence to design a... Read more
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The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster
Written by Kaye Gibbons, Read by Kaye Gibbons
Random House Audio | Unabridged Audiobook Download |
$14.98/21.00(Canada) | 978-0-7393-2191-1 (0-7393-2191-9)
This sequel to Gibbons' beloved classic Ellen Foster, stands on its own as an unforgettable portrait of a redoubtable adolescent making herself up out of whole cloth. Now fifteen, Ellen is settled into a permanent home with a new mother. Strengthened by adversity and blessed with enough intelligence to design a... Read more
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UNTITLED GIBBONS
Written by Kaye Gibbons
Random House Large Print | Trade Paperback | May 4, 2010
$26.00/32.00(Canada) | 978-0-375-72852-5 (0-375-72852-X)
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A Virtuous Woman
Written by Kaye Gibbons
Vintage | Trade Paperback | November 1997
$14.00/17.99(Canada) | 978-0-375-70306-5 (0-375-70306-3)
When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter... Read more
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