Category Archives: Gibbons, Kaye
Kaye Gibbons. The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster. New York: Harcourt, 2005.
Ellen Foster, returning eight years after the acclaimed novel in which she first appeared, is now fifteen and driven to succeed. She is an excellent student, a budding poet, and is applying for early admission to Harvard. Perhaps more important … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2005, Gibbons, Kaye, Piedmont, Wake
Kaye Gibbons. A Virtuous Woman. Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 1989.
Ruby Pitt Woodrow and Blinking Jack Stokes tell, in alternating chapters, the stories of their lives. Ruby’s chapters are told from her perspective as she is dying of cancer at age 45, while Jack’s reminiscences are set during the period … Continue reading
Filed under 1980-1989, 1989, Coastal Plain, Gibbons, Kaye
Kaye Gibbons. Divining Women. New York: Putnam, 2004.
Mary Oliver travels from Washington, D.C. to her hometown, the fictional Elm City, N.C., to spend time with her aunt Maureen in the fall of 1918 with the nation at war and a deadly flu pandemic sweeping the country. Maureen’s … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2004, Coastal Plain, Gibbons, Kaye, Historical, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Wilson
