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A Virtuous Woman

Kaye Gibbons
3.69/5 (24437 ratings)
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A "vivid, unsentimental, powerful" portrait of a Southern marriage by the New York Times-bestselling author of Ellen Foster (Publishers Weekly).

She hasn't been dead four months and I've already eaten to the bottom of the deep freeze. I even ate the green peas. Used to I wouldn't turn my hand over for green peas . . .

Ruby Stokes has died too young and left her husband, Blinking Jack, behind. With alternating entries from each of them, A Virtuous Woman recounts the tale of their years together in an "exquisitely realised piece of writing" (Elizabeth Buchan, The Mail on Sunday).

From their very different backgrounds--Ruby a daughter of wealth, Jack a penniless tenant farmer--to their relationships with their landlord and his family, and the strength they drew from each other in the face of hardship, this story of a marriage is "full of fantastically gritty metaphors . . . A book that will change your dreams" (The Observer).

"Gibbons again flawlessly reproduces the humor and idiom of rural eastern North Carolina." --Library Journal
Format:
Pages:
165 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
First Edition, 1st Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0375703063
ISBN13:
9780375703065
kindle Asin:
B00DCER24I

A Virtuous Woman

Kaye Gibbons
3.69/5 (24437 ratings)
Read Download
A "vivid, unsentimental, powerful" portrait of a Southern marriage by the New York Times-bestselling author of Ellen Foster (Publishers Weekly).

She hasn't been dead four months and I've already eaten to the bottom of the deep freeze. I even ate the green peas. Used to I wouldn't turn my hand over for green peas . . .

Ruby Stokes has died too young and left her husband, Blinking Jack, behind. With alternating entries from each of them, A Virtuous Woman recounts the tale of their years together in an "exquisitely realised piece of writing" (Elizabeth Buchan, The Mail on Sunday).

From their very different backgrounds--Ruby a daughter of wealth, Jack a penniless tenant farmer--to their relationships with their landlord and his family, and the strength they drew from each other in the face of hardship, this story of a marriage is "full of fantastically gritty metaphors . . . A book that will change your dreams" (The Observer).

"Gibbons again flawlessly reproduces the humor and idiom of rural eastern North Carolina." --Library Journal
Format:
Pages:
165 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
First Edition, 1st Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0375703063
ISBN13:
9780375703065
kindle Asin:
B00DCER24I

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