| #1610731 in Books | Back Bay Books | 2001-08-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.55 x5.51l,.67 | File type: PDF | 240 pages | Great product!||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Gritty realism reminiscent of Hemingway and Carver|By Jessica Weil|This is one of those books that takes a long time to really hit you. That’s not to say that it’s a slow read; it’s not. It’s just that the depth of it hits hard and all at once. At least that’s how it was for me.
In the tradition of literary minimalism and dirty realism,|From Publishers Weekly|Evangeline Starr Raybuck is the young heroine who wades through the quagmire of a brutal, intense sexual coming of age in Gibbon's first novel, a catalogue of vice and neglect in rural Pennsylvania told in straightforward, sometimes graphi
Evangeline Starr Raybuck -- plain-spoken, lusty, and hardworking -- and June Keel are high school seniors, best friends going out with best friends, working together at Noecker's chicken farm after school. Vangie and June make out with their boyfriends together in the same car; they pass dirty notes to each other during the day at school. They tell each other everything: "That was the kind of friends we were".
After they graduate, things begin to shift. Vangie get...
You easily download any file type for your device.Swimming Sweet Arrow : A Novel | Maureen Gibbon. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
