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Paperback. Pub Date :2012-08-02 Pages: 336 Language: English Publisher: Penguin PressClassics Twentieth Anniversary Edition - with a new introduction by the author.About as close to flawless as any reader could ask for The New York Times Book ReviewCarolina in the 1950s. and Bone - christened Ruth Anna Boatwright - lives a happy life. in and out of her aunts houses. playing with her cousins ??on the porch. sipping ice tea. loving her little sister Reece and her beautiful young mother. But Glen Waddell has been watching them all. wanting her mother too. and when he promises a new life for the family. her mother gratefully accepts. Soon Bone finds herself in a different. terrible world. living in fear. and an exile from everything she knows. Bastard Out of Carolina is a raw. poignant tale of fury. power. love and family.