Ellen Foster, Kaye Gibbons
Ellen Foster, Kaye Gibbons
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Ellen Foster

Author: Kaye Gibbons

Narrator: Kaye Gibbons

Abridged: 2 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/1996


Synopsis

"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."

About Kaye Gibbons

Kaye Gibbons was born in 1960 in Nash County, North Carolina, on Bend of the River Road. She attended North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying American and English literature. At twenty-six years old, she wrote her first novel, Ellen Foster. She is also the author of A Virtuous Woman, Charms for the Easy Life, On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon, A Cure for Dreams, Sights Unseen, and Divining Women.


Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Nicole on 2007-11-05 01:15:27

short but gripping, couldnt put it down, perspective is so real

Goodreads review by Angela M on April 20, 2015

This is a short but powerful and a lot of the time a painful story . Ellen Foster is a precocious eleven year old girl whose courage and strength and infinite wisdom carry her through things that no child should bear . I wanted to pull Ellen out of those pages and take care of her , get her away from......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on February 09, 2009

I've read lots of reviews of this book that were really positive. All the quotes on the book itself are of course glowing with praise. It was an Oprah's Book Club selection. It got published. A friend chose it for book club. Many people apparently think this is a really amazing book. I'm not exactly......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on October 20, 2020

What is a strong spirit? Ellen Foster, the eleven year old narrator of this book, exemplifies what such a spirit is. Through seemingly insurmountable hardships- a nearly loveless early childhood, rejection, an abusive father and a mentally ill mother, and poverty, she is able to find strength and co......more