by Dorothy Allison · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420430744
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«Bastarda» is the coming-of-age novel by Dorothy Allison, published by Alfaguara in paperback (472 pages, in Spanish).
Bone, a girl from a poor family in the American South, grows up surrounded by the Boatwrights: men fond of fighting and drinking, and women who care for the home with affection. Between poverty and violence, the novel portrays her childhood and adolescence.
Original title: 'Bastard out of Carolina'. The work was originally published in 1992; this Spanish edition dates from 2000.
For readers of coming-of-age novels and Southern fiction with an interest in stories about identity and survival.
Dorothy Earlene Allison was an American writer whose writing focused on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism, and lesbianism. She was a self-identified femme lesbian. Allison won several Lambda Literary Awards. In 2014, Allison was elected to membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
