by Jane Hamilton · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780385265706
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«The Book of Ruth» is the novel by Jane Hamilton, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group in paperback (336 pages, in English).
Ruth Dahl grows up in a small Illinois town in the shadow of her brilliant older brother and a mother who barely notices her. Her marriage to Ruby, a sweet but unstable man, seems to offer her a respite, until violence enters her home and Ruth must piece together the fragments of her story to understand what happened.
First novel by Jane Hamilton, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel in 1989 and selected for Oprah's Book Club.
For readers of literary fiction and family sagas interested in intimate portraits of rural American life and resilience in the face of adversity.
