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Ellen Foster is a 1987 novel by American novelist Kaye Gibbons. It was a selection of Oprah's Book Club in October 1997.
Dec 14, 1997 · Ellen Foster: Directed by John Erman. With Julie Harris, Jena Malone, Ted Levine, Glynnis O'Connor. After her mother's death, a young girl is separated from her abusive father and is sent between her various friends and relatives, always longing to find a place to call home.
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- John Erman
- 1997-12-14
Jan 21, 1987 · Ellen Foster is the abused Pippi Longstocking of the South, an adorable quirky confabulation who overcomes difficulty, circumvents evil and triumphs in developing tender and enlightened compassion for her Black friend, whom she understands will always have a hard life.
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Ellen Foster, published in 1987, is the debut novel of American author Kaye Gibbons. The novel is a first-person narrative that follows the eponymous Ellen Foster as she navigates a tumultuous childhood marked by abuse, neglect, and the death of her mother.
This book is a coming of age story about a resilient eleven-year-old girl, Ellen Foster. The experiences she engages in are definitely not typical for a girl of her age: her parents and grandmother die in the story, she is poverty stricken, and abused.
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- Kaye Gibbons
Kaye Gibbons (born May 5, 1960) is an American novelist. Her first novel, Ellen Foster (1987), received the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a Special Citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and the Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Prize in Creative Writing from the University of North ...
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Ellen Foster is a bildungsroman, or comingof-age novel, tracing Ellen's movement from isolation into community, from abandonment into nurturance and her own role in making this transformation occur. Ellen learns from her experiences.
