- Fiction, Children of alcoholics, Orphans, Girls
Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.
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Earnest, spare, classical in form and grave.
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Kaye Gibbons
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 136
- Publisher
- Vintage Books, Jonathon Cape, Chivers Press
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780224025294
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First sentence
“When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy.”
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