The Book of Ruth

Description

Winner of the 1989 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Awardfor best first novel, this exquisite bookconfronts real-life issues of alienation and violencefrom which the author creates a stunning testamentto the human capacity for mercy, compassion andlove.”
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Jane Hamilton
Published: 12/01/1989
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780385265706
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 0.70″ H x 8.12″ L x 5.26″ W

Award: 1989 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award Winner – Fiction

About the Author
Jane Hamilton is the author of The Book of Ruth, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction; A Map of the World, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and named one of the top ten books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly, the Miami Herald, and People magazine; Disobedience; and The Short History of a Prince. She lives in Rochester, Wisconsin.