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Name: Ellen Foster

Author: Kaye Gibbons
Year: 1987
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Award winners, Fiction

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9780375703058
9781616203023
0375703055
1616203021

"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 the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Institute of Arts and Letters. Wise, funny, affectionate, and true, Ellen Foster is, as Walker Percy called it, "The real thing. Which is to say, a lovely, sometimes heartwrenching novel. . . . [Ellen Foster] is as much a part of the backwoods South as a Faulkner character - and a good deal more endearing."

This book is part of the "Ellen Foster" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster"
First published in 2005
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