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Carregando... A Virtuous Woman (1989)de Kaye Gibbons
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I first listened to this work while traveling cross country. The voices reading the book rang true to the story and enhanced the telling. I recommend a good version of the book on tape for a wonderful listening experience. ( ) Began reading this book after lunch and finished it before bedtime. First published in 1989, A VIRTUOUS WOMAN was an Oprah"s Book Club pick. A lovely little book about second chances and an unlikely match between widowed twenty year-old Ruby and Jack, a forty year-old tenant farmer, a union which endures for twenty-five years. This small Carolina parable has much to teach us - about poor choices, loss, grief and redemption. And love, of course. I was especially moved by its depiction of an old man suddenly left to fend for himself when his wife dies. It's a story told with sensitivity and grace, leavened with generous doses of country humor. So glad I found this novel, even thirty years late. I loved it. My highest recommendation. - Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER Couldn't put it down until I was finished. A simple love story between two people who didn't ask for much out of life. Their marriage was based on mutual need from each other. He needed a wife to clean and cook for him and she needed a man who would adored her. This was an unusual book, but I loved it. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never asked a woman to do more than help him hitch a mule. They didn't fall in love so much as they simply found each other and held on for dear life. Kaye Gibbons's first novel, Ellen Foster, won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the praise of writers from Walker Percy to Eudora Welty. In A Virtuous Woman, Gibbons transcends her early promise, creating a multilayered and indelibly convincing portrait of two seemingly ill-matched people who somehow miraculously make a marriage. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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