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Winner of the 1989 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel, this exquisite book confronts real-life issues of alienation and violence from which the author creates a stunning testament to the human capacity for mercy, compassion and love.
About the Author
Jane Hamilton is the author most recently ofThe Excellent LombardsandThe Book of Ruth, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for first fiction, as well asA Map of the World, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and named one of the top ten books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly, the Miami Herald, and People. Both The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World have been selections of Oprah's Book Club. Her following work,The Short History of a Prince, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998, her novelDisobediencewas published in 2000, and her last novelWhen Madeline Was Youngwas a Washington Post Best Book of 2006. She lives in and writes in an orchard farmhouse in Wisconsin.
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