Notes
Greenville County, South Carolina, is a wild, lush place that is home to the Boatwright family - a tight-knit clan of rough-hewn, hard-drinking men who shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who get married young and age too quickly ... more
Description
Bone, an illegitimate child in a family of social outcasts, sees her mother's happiness with her new husband and will not tell when the stepfather begins abusing her in the 1950s.
Collection
Call number
F ALL
Genres
Subjects
Awards
National Book Award (Finalist — Fiction — 1992)
Publishing Triangle Awards (Finalist — 1993)
Brooklyn Magazine's Literary United States (South Carolina)
The Great American Novels (1992)
Publication
London : Penguin Grpou, 1993, c1992
Physical description
309 p.; 20 cm