The Book of Ruth
by Jane Hamilton | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
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Ruth says right off: "I tell myself that it should be simple to see through to the past now that I'm set loose, now that I can invent my own words, but nothing much has come my way without a price." In Ruth's story, which takes place in a rural town in Illinois sometime in the mid-twentieth century, it's detail, not the big picture, that governs. There is her body that refuses to be beautiful like those the magazines show, her mother's unrelenting anger and bitterness, her distant and disturbed father, her handsome and heartless brother, her friends no one else likes, her love for a crazy man who loves her back like no one else ever did, her correspondence with Aunt Sid who believes in her. Telling her story is a struggle: "We were the products of our limited vocabulary: we had no words for savory odors or the colors of the winter sky or the unexpected compulsion to sing." With Aunt Sid's help, Ruth survives to recount her amazingly ordinary life-story — including relentless hours of unrewarding hard work, the pain of recurrent disappointment, and vicious violence — with extraordinary dignity and daring. — From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Jesse Larsen
Journal Entry 2 by Vasha at The Shop, 312 E Seneca St in Ithaca, New York USA on Monday, April 12, 2010
Released 14 yrs ago (4/12/2010 UTC) at The Shop, 312 E Seneca St in Ithaca, New York USA
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