Hamilton, Jane, 1957 July 13-

The book of Ruth / [electronic resource] Jane Hamilton. - 1st Anchor Books ed. - New York : Anchor Books, 1990, c1988. - 328 p. ; 21 cm.

Ruth, a young woman living in a rural Illinois town, looks back on the people who have shaped her life, including her runaway father, shrewish mother, and crazy husband.

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Violence--Fiction.
Women--United States--Fiction.
City and town life--United States--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.


Middle West--Fiction.
Illinois--Fiction.


Domestic fiction.

PS3558.A4428 / B66 1990

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