- American Women authors, Fiction, Love stories, Fiction, romance, general
Blinking Jack Stokes was a skinny tenant farmer, and Ruby Pitt Woodrow was "the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry ... They didn't fall in love so much as they simply found each other and held on for dear life."--Pbk. cover.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Kaye Gibbons
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 162
- Publisher
- Audioworks, Algonquin Books, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780679728443
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