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Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison is the bestselling author of several novels including Bastard Out of Carolina, Cavedweller, and Two Or Three Things I Know For Sure. The recipient of numerous awards, she has been the subject of many profiles and a short documentary film of her life, Two or Three Things but... show more



Dorothy Allison is the bestselling author of several novels including Bastard Out of Carolina, Cavedweller, and Two Or Three Things I Know For Sure. The recipient of numerous awards, she has been the subject of many profiles and a short documentary film of her life, Two or Three Things but Nothing For Sure.

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Birth date: April 11, 1949
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Gay & Lesbian, Literature & Fiction
Dorothy Allison's Books
Bastard Out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison Trash - Dorothy Allison Skin: Talking about Sex, Class and Literature - Dorothy Allison Cavedweller - Dorothy Allison Two or Three Things I Know for Sure - Dorothy Allison Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class - Michelle Tea, Dorothy Allison, Diane Prima, Daisy Hernandez, Terri Griffith, Polyestra, Sailor Holladay, Silas Howard, Lis Goldschmidt, Dean Spade, Tatiana De LA Tierra, Shell Feijo, Colleen McKee, Wendy Thompson, Cassie Peterson, Eileen Myles, Tara Hardy, Liliana Hernánd The Women Who Hate Me Poetry 1980-1990 - Dorothy Allison Jesus Is Sending You This Message: Stories - Jim Grimsley, Dorothy Allison Downhome: An Anthology of Southern Women Writers - Susie Mee, Neale Hurston, Ellen Glasgow, Elizabeth Spencer, Bobbie Ann Mason, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Walker, Lee Smith, Dorothy Allison, Mary Ward Brown, Katherine Anne Porter, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan, Elizabeth Cox, Tina McElroy Ansa, Mary Noailles Murfree, Doris Bet High Risk: An Anthology of Forbidden Writings - Mary Gaitskill, William S. Burroughs, Amy Scholder, Dennis Cooper, Ira Silverberg, Dorothy Allison, Essex Hemphill The Member of the Wedding: The Play - Carson McCullers, Dorothy Allison Swords of the Rainbow - Tanya Huff, Lawrence Schimel, Mark Shepherd, Dorothy Allison, Samuel R. Delany, Jewelle L. Gomez, Nina Boal, Eric Garber, Mel Keegan, Carrie Richerson, A.J. Potter, Lauren Wright Douglas, Jean Stewart, Jim Provenzano, Stan Leventhal, Bruce Zinda What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology - Donna Jarrell, Ira Sukrungruang, Erin McGraw, Conrad Hilberry, Stephen Dunn, Peter Carey, Katherine Riegel, Jack Coulehan, Rebecca Curtis, Dorothy Allison, Vern Rutsala, George Saunders, S.L. Wisenberg, Pam Houston, Terrence Hayest, Denise Duhamel, J.L. Haddaway, Sharon S Growing Up Gay/Lesbian: A Literary Anthology - Bennett L. Singer, Kevin Jennings, Linda Heal, Becky Birtha, Martina Navratilova, David Kopay, Perry Deane Young, Audre Lorde, David Bergman, Steven Saylor, Julia Sullivan, Nancy Garden, Walt Whitman, Billie Tallmij, Radclyffe Hall, Quentin Crisp, Jill Frushtick, John Rei Gay City: Volume 5: Ghosts in Gaslight, Monsters in Steam - Vincent Kovar, Evan J. Peterson, Kat Smalley, Dorothy Allison, C.A Conrad., Steve Berman, Jericho Brown Birds of Prey - Dorothy Allison Birds of Prey - Dorothy Allison Catherine Opie: American Photographer - Dorothy Allison, Jennifer Blessing, Nat Trotman, Russell Ferguson, Catherine Opie A Reader's Guide to the Works of Dorothy... A Reader's Guide to the Works of Dorothy Allison: Cavedweller, Bastard Out of Carolina, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure - Dorothy Allison Bastard Out of Carolina & Two or Three T... Bastard Out of Carolina & Two or Three Things I Know for Sure - Dorothy Allison Tin House: Tenth Anniversary Issue - Charles Baxter, Aimee Bender, Jim Shepard, Dorothy Allison, Amy Hempel
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Bastard Out of Carolina. Dorothy Allison - Dorothy Allison
Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badly - Lee Gutkind, Beth Ann Fennelly, Dorothy Allison
Bastard out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison
Downhome: An Anthology of Southern Women Writers - Susie Mee, Neale Hurston, Ellen Glasgow, Elizabeth Spencer, Bobbie Ann Mason, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Walker, Lee Smith, Dorothy Allison, Mary Ward Brown, Katherine Anne Porter, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan, Elizabeth Cox, Tina McElroy Ansa, Mary Noailles Murfree, Doris Bet
Jesus Is Sending You This Message: Stories - Jim Grimsley, Dorothy Allison
Cavedweller - Dorothy Allison
The Women Who Hate Me Poetry 1980-1990 - Dorothy Allison
Trash - Dorothy Allison
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure - Dorothy Allison
Skin: Talking about Sex, Class and Literature - Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison's readers
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bossyfemme
bossyfemme rated it 6 years ago
text Trash
A forever favourite.
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Dem
Dem rated it 8 years ago
text Bastard Out of Carolina
2.5 Stars Bastard out of Carolina is a tough and harrowing read. Written by Dororthy Allison and set in Allison's home town of Greenville, South Carolina in the 1950s. The story centres around "Bone" Boatwright a girl born fatherless to 15 years old Anney Boatwright and sexually and physically ab...
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Lost (in books) in Los Angeles
Lost (in books) in Los Angeles rated it 11 years ago
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Beautifully written and agonizingly heartbreaking. It's clear why Dorothy Allison has been compared to Harper Lee, because Bone is reminiscent in so many ways of Scout, and both Allison and Lee show the good and the bad in southern society. Bone has the love of her family, which is probably the only...
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Yuki
Yuki rated it 11 years ago
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I didn't like it, but I decided 1 star wouldn't be fair. It's too long. It's heartbreaking, but farfetched - I know it's autobiographical, I know.
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so many books, so little time
so many books, so little time rated it 12 years ago
text The Women's Room
Some contemporary novels eventually become very instructive as historical ones. The mid-century social trappings have changed and to some extent certain issues like working outside the home have moved toward resolution, but the ingrained assumptions and the violence haven't changed a bit. In a react...
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