It’s every author’s main fear: That after working on a novel for years or decades, pouring your soul and sweat into the words, it finally gets published and…no one notices. Worse, it quickly melts off the shelves and sinks into obscurity, and you wind up buying all extant copies at a quarter each just to […]
State of Grace
Nominated for the National Book Award in 1974, this haunting, profoundly disquieting novel manages to be at once sparse and lush, to combine Biblical simplicity with Gothic intensity and strangeness. It is the story of Kate, despised by her mother, bound to her father by ties stronger and darker than blood. It is the story of her attempted escapes−in detached sexual encounters, at a Southern college populated by spoiled and perverse beauties, and in a doomed marriage to a man who cannot understand what she is running from. Witty, erotic, searing acute, STATE OF GRACE bears the inimitable stamp of one of our fines and most provocative writers.
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State of Grace
Nominated for the National Book Award in 1974, this haunting, profoundly disquieting novel manages to be at once sparse and lush, to combine Biblical simplicity with Gothic intensity and strangeness. It is the story of Kate, despised by her mother, bound to her father by ties stronger and darker than blood. It is the story of her attempted escapes−in detached sexual encounters, at a Southern college populated by spoiled and perverse beauties, and in a doomed marriage to a man who cannot understand what she is running from. Witty, erotic, searing acute, STATE OF GRACE bears the inimitable stamp of one of our fines and most provocative writers.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780679726197 |
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Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 02/19/1990 |
Series: | Vintage Contemporaries Series |
Edition description: | Reissue |
Pages: | 272 |
Sales rank: | 638,603 |
Product dimensions: | 5.20(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.60(d) |
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