Bastard Out of Carolina (Anniversary) Writing cocky thief

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Bastard Out of Carolina (Anniversary) Writing cocky thiefA profound portrait of family dynamics in the rural South and "an essential novel" (The New Yorker) "As close to flawless as any reader could ask for . . . The living language [Allison] has created is as exact and innovative as the language of To Kill a Mockingbird and The Catcher in the Rye." The New York Times Book Review One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years The publication of Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina