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Ellen Foster : A novel

Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction. An eleven-year-old heroine tells her unforgettable story with honesty, perceptivity, humor, and unselfconscious heroism. "The honesty of thought and eye and feeling and word!"--Eudora Welty; "A lovely, breathtaking, sometimes heart-wrenching first novel."--Walker Percy. A LITERARY GUILD SELECTION.

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  • "Remarquable récit de l'équipée d'une jeune adolescente qui règle ses problèmes de famille de façon très réfléchie. Monologue intérieur que modulent la tendresse et l'humour."
  • "Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction. An eleven-year-old heroine tells her unforgettable story with honesty, perceptivity, humor, and unselfconscious heroism. "The honesty of thought and eye and feeling and word!"--Eudora Welty; "A lovely, breathtaking, sometimes heart-wrenching first novel."--Walker Percy. A LITERARY GUILD SELECTION."@en
  • "Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction. An eleven-year-old heroine tells her unforgettable story with honesty, perceptivity, humor, and unselfconscious heroism. "The honesty of thought and eye and feeling and word!"--Eudora Welty; "A lovely, breathtaking, sometimes heart-wrenching first novel."--Walker Percy. A LITERARY GUILD SELECTION."
  • "In Ellen Foster, the title character is an 11-year-old orphan who refers to herself as "old Ellen," an appellation that is disturbingly apt. Ellen is an old woman in a child's body; her frail, unhappy mother dies, her abusive father alternately neglects her and makes advances on her, and she is shuttled from one uncaring relative's home to another before she finally takes matters into her own hands and finds herself a place to belong."@en
  • "Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life, and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children."
  • "Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children."
  • "Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children."@en
  • "A young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children."
  • "Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young girl searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children."
  • "Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children."
  • "After the death of her mother, an eleven-year-old girl finds that life with her father is too dangerous and tries to find a new home."@en
  • "Ellen Foster is an 11-year-old who has been dealt a rotten hand in life. Her early childhood is spent with a sickly mother and an alcoholic and abusive father. After her mother commits suicide (or is it murder?), Ellen goes to live alone with her father, doing the best she can to avoid being raped or abused. When the courts finally take action, she is sent to live with her grandmother, a bitter and spiteful woman. Yet when her grandmother dies, Ellen manages to take charge of her own life."@en
  • "One of the most talked-about and endearing first novels in years bears the story of a female Huck Finn and her search for a true home."@en
  • "A cloth bag containing eleven copies of the title, that may also include a folder with miscellaneous notes, discussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group discussion leaders."@en
  • ""Cast adrift after the death of her drunken father and sadly misused mother, Ellen moves from one woebegone situation to another until she finally finds a friend.""@en

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  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Bildungsromane"
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  • "Ellen Foster : [en roman]"@sv
  • "Ellen Foster / S"
  • "Ellen Foster (Oprah book)"@en
  • "Ellen Foster oder tausend Arten, meinen Vater zu töten Roman"
  • "Sangch'ŏ ppun in ŏrin ch'ŏnsa Ellen : K'ei Gibonsŭ changp'yŏn sosŏl = Ellen Foster"
  • "Ellen Foster : a novel"
  • "Ellen Foster : a novel"@en
  • "상처뿐인어린천사 : 케이기본스장편소설 = Ellen Foster"
  • "Ellen Foster a novel"
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