The Book of Ruth, Jane Hamilton
The Book of Ruth, Jane Hamilton
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The Book of Ruth

Author: Jane Hamilton

Narrator: Angela Jayne Rogers

Unabridged: 13 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/03/2009

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

Winner of the 1989 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel, this exquisite book confronts real-life issues of alienation and violence from which the author creates a stunning testament to the human capacity for mercy, compassion and love.

“An American beauty this book. … The narrator of Jane Hamilton’s sensational first novel is a holy lusty innocent.”—Vogue

About Jane Hamilton

Jane Hamilton lives, works, and writes in an orchard farmhouse in Rochester, Wisconsin.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Christina on September 07, 2016

I am really surprised by all of the negative reviews of this book. I think it is so strange that the characters are discounted as "white trash", their story thus, uninteresting or too dreary. While the story is by no means a happy one it is highly engrossing and worth telling. Hamilton's narrator Ru......more

Goodreads review by Jodie on May 11, 2008

This is one of my all-time favorite books. It's a book that changes one's perspective on people and walking a mile in other's shoes before judging. Did your school have one or two or maybe more kids that were just "off" -- easy targets for bullies and even kids who usually seemed nice? In this book......more

Goodreads review by Ann on March 24, 2008

people complain about ruth being "white trash," but i think they are missing the whole point - putting yourself in a world not your own. i grew to adore ruth as i experienced her small-town world. i found her ability to daydream and fantasize intelligent and mesmerizing. people also complain about t......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on January 15, 2008

This is Jane Hamilton's first novel and it is a whopper. It's the story of a small-town girl and her struggles with growing up with a mother who's lost any compassion or sweetness and a brother she can't relate to. This girl, Ruth, despite an intelligence that she's unaware of and so is everyone els......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on December 30, 2009

I gave this book four stars, but I can't say I actually enjoyed it. I turned the pages out of a compulsive voyeurism, the way one might stick one's ear against the wall to eavesdrop on the dysfunctional family next door. It's not that you enjoy hearing the domestic violence break out--the screams, t......more