- Fiction, Mothers and daughters, Beauty contests, Fiction, general
A novel on social-climbing in Alabama featuring a trio of ambitious mothers. In an effort to beautify her daughter, one of the mothers smashes the girl's crooked fingers with the handle of an axe so she will need plastic surgery. A first novel.
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Contemporary, classical in form, raw and bleak.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Helen Ellis
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Scribner, Scribner Paperback Fiction, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780356220734
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