

- Fiction, Social life and customs, Poor women, Lesbians
First published in 1988, the award-winning Trash showcases Allison at her most fearlessly honest and startlingly vivid. The limitless scope of human emotion and experience are depicted in stories that give aching and eloquent voice to the terrible wounds we inflict on those closest to us.
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- gravecomic
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- Author
- Dorothy Allison
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 238
- Publisher
- Penguin USA, Inc., Firebrand Books, Plume
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780006547600
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