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Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction. An eleven-year-old heroine tells her unforgettable story with honesty, perceptivity, humor, and unselfconscious heroism. "The honesty of thought and eye and feeling and word!"--Eudora Welty; "A lovely, breathtaking, sometimes heart-wrenching first novel."--Walker Percy. A LITERARY GUILD SELECTION.
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Ellen Foster is a southern Holden Caulfield, tougher perhaps, as funny ... A breathtaking first novel (WALKER PERCY)
Filled with lively humour, compassion and integrity ... ellen Foster may be the most trustworthy character in recent fiction (ALICE HOFFMAN)
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Filled with lively humour, compassion and integrity ... ellen Foster may be the most trustworthy character in recent fiction (ALICE HOFFMAN)
Kaye Gibbons' highly acclaimed first novel
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- Publication date2012
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