The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

Author: J.T. LeRoy

A journey into the dark heart of the American road trip….Read More

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The publication of Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina was a landmark event. The novel's profound portrait of family dynamics in the rural South won the author a National Book… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Fiction In English American Writers 1945 1999 Texts, South Carolina Greenville County, United States

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