AudioFile - Find your next great audiobook
Get our Newsletter

BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA

by | Read by Dorothy Allison

Fiction • 3 hrs. • Abridged • © 1993

Bone is the nickname of a sensitive young girl in rural South Carolina who lives with her mother, stepfather, sister, scores of kin and many other rich characters. Author/reader Dorothy Allison's soft Carolina dialect may be a bit refined for her story. The abridgment has two problems. The reading sketches out several characters fairly well, but loses too many others. The plot jumps from family story to family story without adequate transition. As a result, sumptuous individuals and pivotal events elapse without impact. In spite of the abridgment problems, Allsion develops the pathos of Bone's heavy emotional baggage and carries the reading to a climactic ending that makes the listener's heart pound. D.W.K. ©AudioFile, Portland, Maine [Published: NOV 93]

Retail pak • HighBridge Audio • 1993

CS ISBN 0453008607 $16.00 • Two cassettes

Advertisement Advertisement

Formats

Retail pak • HighBridge Audio • 1993

CS ISBN 0453008607 $16.00 • Two cassettes

The latest audiobook reviews, right in your inbox.

Get our FREE Newsletter and discover a world of audiobooks.

envelope

AudioFile Newsletter

Let us recommend your next great audiobook!

No algorithms here!
We pick great audiobooks for you.
Sign up for our free newsletter with audiobook love from AudioFile editors.

If you are already with us, thank you! Just click X above.

×

Thank you for signing up.

×

Thanks!

Thank you for contacting us!

Our group will review and follow up within 72 hours.
Thanks for your interest!

Back Home ×

Thanks!

Thank you for signing up!

Our group will review and follow up soon.

Back Home ×