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Article: Cavedweller.
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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Dorothy Allison's prose bites and lilts, creating little pockets of idiosyncracy while servicing the traditional enough topic of how family ties simultaneously choke and comfort the renegade female soul. Witness, for instance, this sentence: "Mrs. Hillman was at the window, face like a storm cloud and her mouth like a seam." Or this: "The sisters breathed in rage like steam off soup." Both can be found in Cavedweller, Allison's much-anticipated follow-up to her acclaimed first novel, Bastard Out of Carolina - a tough act for even the bravest writer to follow, but then, Allison's subtext is practically always bravery.
Near the end of the new book, Allison's central ...
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Article: Rednecks, redemption in Georgia
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May 3, 1998 ;
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...Cavedweller. By Dorothy Allison. Dutton. 448 pages. $24 ... Bastard Out of Carolina," Dorothy Allison sets her story of family, friendship ... candor and often lyrical prose Allison relates the story of Delia Byrd, who fled Cayro for Los ...
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