by Dorothy Allison · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782264024671
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«L'Histoire de Bone» is Dorothy Allison's coming-of-age novel published by Editions 10/18 in paperback (414 pages, in French).
Ruth Anne Boatwright, called Bone, grows up in a poor, large family in South Carolina, marked by violence and secrets. Between love for her mother and the hostility of her stepfather, the girl tries to build her identity; the work portrays abuse and resilience in the American South.
Dorothy Allison's first novel, autobiographical in background, published in 1992 as Bastard Out of Carolina; finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award.
For readers of Southern fiction, literary fiction, and coming-of-age stories focused on identity, social class, and family violence.
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.
