Ellen Foster
- Authors
- Kaye Gibbons
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books
- Tags
- literature
- Date
- 1987-01-01T16:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.95 MB
- Lang
- en
Paperback, 144 pages
Published 1987
Algonquin Books (2012)
Callil-Toibin 200 Best Novels (1950-1999)
Includes an essay by the author "How I Became a Writer"
"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.
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.
"Filled with lively humor, compassion, and intimacy."—Alice Hoffman, The New York Times Book Review