Dorothy Allison, Author Plume Books $15 (309p) ISBN 978-0-452-26957-6
Allison spikes her critically acclaimed first novel, a National Book Award nominee, with pungent characters, and saturates it with a sense of its setting--Greenville, S.C. (Mar.)
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Dorothy Allison, Author Firebrand Books $12.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-932379-51-1
In 14 gritty, intimate stories, Allison's fictional persona exposes with poetic frankness the complexities of being ``a cross-eyed working-class lesbian, addicted to violence, language, and hope,'' rebelling against the Southern ``poor white trash''
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Dorothy Allison, Author Dutton Books $20 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-93425-7
Allison's remarkable country voice emerges in a first novel spiked with pungent characters ranging from the slatternly to the grotesque, and saturated with sense of place--Greenville, S.C. Ruth Anne Boatwright, 13, got the nickname Bone at birth,...
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Dorothy Allison, Author Firebrand Books $9.95 (72p) ISBN 978-0-932379-98-6
Allison ( Trash ) writes poems that brim with emotion, sometimes focused and tender, but more often confused and enraged. The subject in this expanded edition of her collection of poems is Allison's lesbianism. Although she mentions the freedoms...
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Dorothy Allison, Author Dutton Books $14.95 (94p) ISBN 978-0-525-93921-4
Allison's much-praised novel Bastard Out of Carolina was inspired by her childhood in Greenville, S.C., but in this memoir, adapted from a performance piece, she cuts even closer to the bone. ``We don't have a family Bible?'' the author's fourth-grad
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Dorothy Allison, Author Firebrand Books $14.95 (261p) ISBN 978-1-56341-044-4
Impassioned, personal and highly intelligent, Allison's ( Bastard Out of Carolina ) collection of published writings and addresses from the past decade examines issues of class and sexuality through the intricate lenses of autobiography and the...
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Dorothy Allison, Author Dutton Books $24.95 (434p) ISBN 978-0-525-94167-5
Four women endure pain, experience epiphanies and find imperfect but bearable methods to continue their lives in Allison's moving second novel, after the celebrated Bastard Out of Carolina. After Delia Byrd buries Randall Pritchard--father of her 10-
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