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A contemporary literary classic, available these days in a last wedding souvenir edition with a brand new afterword by the writer. The book of Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out-Of Carolina was a milestone occasion. The storyis serious face of household dynamics in the rural South won the writer a National Book Award nomination and released her in to the literary limelight. Experts have compared Allison to William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Harper Lee, identifying her the very first author of her generation to dramatize the terminology and lives of poor whites in the South.