Ellen Foster
Kaye Gibbons
Aug 1996 · Simon and Schuster · Narrated by Kaye Gibbons
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"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy."
So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kaye Gibbons's first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Wise, funny, affectionate and true, Ellen Foster is, as Walker Percy called it, "The real thing. Which is to say, a lovely, sometimes heart/wrenching novel...[Ellen Foster] is as much a part of the backwoods South as a Faulkner character and a good deal more endearing."
So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kaye Gibbons's first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Wise, funny, affectionate and true, Ellen Foster is, as Walker Percy called it, "The real thing. Which is to say, a lovely, sometimes heart/wrenching novel...[Ellen Foster] is as much a part of the backwoods South as a Faulkner character and a good deal more endearing."
About the author
Kaye Gibbons lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband, Michael, and their two daughters, Mary and Leslie.
Ellen Foster was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and was accorded
a special citation by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation.
Ellen Foster was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and was accorded
a special citation by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation.
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