✍ Scribed by Kaye Gibbons
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
'Cuando era pequeña pensaba en cómo matar a mi padre.' Así comienza Ellen Foster, una de las contadas obras cuya protagonista, al igual que el Huckleberry Finn de Mark Twain o la Pecola Breedlove de Toni Morrison, ha entrado por derecho propio en la cultura popular norteamericana.
Ellen es una niña de once años que, haciendo gala de una inteligencia y una determinación fuera de lo común, busca su lugar en el mundo mientras todo se tambalea a su alrededor. Ambientada en un Sur en el que el racismo, la exclusión y la violencia forman parte del paisaje cotidiano, este libro, a medio camino entre la novela de formación y el gótico sureño, también es una obra repleta de lirismo, humor y humanidad.
Una obra memorable sobre la búsqueda del amor y la amistad, repleta de imágenes que no abandonarán al lector y que entusiasmará a los lectores de Flannery O'Connor o Carson McCullers.
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