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.
Publisher: Algonquin Books (January 12, 1987)
Format: EPUB
Page count: 168 pages
File size: 5.9 MB
Protection: DRM
Language: English