Club Protocol Release: Bastard Out of Carolina KINDLE MOBI by Dorothy Allison H.A.

*Please note: due to Allison's creative spelling to illustrate place and class, there are words with spaces here and there ie...she spells fallen and many other words with double consonants with only one "l" so the ebook version sometimes places a space between the l and the en for example.*
Bastard out of Carolina was the first novel published by author Dorothy Allison (adapted to film in 1996).
In The New York Times Book Review, George Garrett said "in no way [does Bastard Out of Carolina] seems to be a patchwork of short stories linked together. Everything, each part, belongs only to the novel" and "close to flawless". He compared it J.D. Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye and Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird praising it for the "special qualities of her style [which] include a perfect ear for speech and its natural rhythms; an unassertive, cumulative lyricism; an intensely imagined and presented sensory world, with all five senses working together; and, above all, again and again a language for the direct articulation of deep and complex feelings.
The book, which is semi-autobiographical in nature, is set in Allison's hometown of Greenville, South Carolina. Narrated by Ruth Anne "Bone" Boatwright, the primary conflict occurs between Bone and her mother's husband, Glen.
The novel examines the expectations of gender and mother–child relationships, and explores the roles of these characters in the future. Conditions of class, race, sexuality and gender play out in Bone's life and her relationships with others.
• National Book Award finalist
• 1992 - Ferro-Grumley Award
• 1992 - Bay Area Book Reviewers Award
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