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Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons

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Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons

Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction. An eleven-year-old heroine tells her unforgettable story with honesty, perceptivity, humor, and unselfconscious heroism. The honesty of thought and eye and feeling and word --Eudora Welty; A lovely, breathtaking, sometimes heart-wrenching first novel.--Walker Percy. A LITERARY GUILD SELECTION.

KAYE GIBBONS is the best-selling author of seven books. The American Academy of Arts and Letters gave her the Sue Kaufman Award for her first novel, Ellen Foster, as well as a special commendation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation. Oprah's Book Club chose that novel, as well as A Virtuous Woman. Gibbons is a Raleigh, North Carolina resident.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781565122055
ISBN 10	1565122054
Title	Ellen Foster
Author	Kaye Gibbons
Series	Oprah's Book Club
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Algonquin Books
Year published	1987-01-12
Number of pages	168
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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