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Kaye Gibbons A Critical Companion
Mary Jean DeMarr
ISBN: 0-313-31933-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31933-4
176 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 3/30/2003
List Price: $46.95 (UK Sterling Price: £32.95)
Discount Price: $23.48 Sale Price for U.S. Customers Only. Save 50%. Ends 12/31/2009.
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Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Born to a tobacco farmer in rural North Carolina, Kaye Gibbons found her literary voice by speaking through the strong southern women who inhabit her novels. While concentrating on the places and people she knows well, Gibbons has managed to speak for people who struggle to find their own place, wherever they are, and her books have reached a worldwide audience. Whether for students assigned to read Ellen Foster or for lovers of literature, this companion—the first and only book-length study of its kind—provides insights and interpretations that will help readers enjoy and better appreciate the novels of Kaye Gibbons.

Beginning with a biographical chapter, this companion shows how Gibbons's own life came to shape her fiction. Her place in and contributions to the genre of the southern novel are considered, and readers are taken through each of her six novels, starting with the highly acclaimed Ellen Foster (1987) and concluding with On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon (1998). For each work, lucid analyses of plot, character development, theme, and style are provided, along with an alternate critical perspective. The select bibliography includes reviews and further information on biographical and critical sources.
Table of Contents:
  • Kaye Gibbons: Life and Works
    Genres and Patterns
    Ellen Foster 1987
    A Virtuous Woman 1989
    A Cure for Dreams 1991
    Charms for the Easy Life 1993
    Sights Unseen 1995
    On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon 1998
    Bibliography
About the Author: MARY JEAN DEMARR is Professor Emerita of English and Women's Studies at Indiana State University. She is the author of two previous Critical Companions, Barbara Kingsolver (1999) and Colleen McCullough (1996). She is also co-author of The Adolescent in the American Novel Since 1960.
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