by KayeGibbons (Author)
Ruby Pitt rejects the quiet life planned for her by her adoring family and runs off with John Woodrow, a migrant worker who turns out to be a cruel and violently abusive liar. When he dies in a street brawl, Ruby takes up with Blinking Jack Stokes, a quiet, uneducated, but highly capable tenant twenty years her senior. He is surprised as anyone when she agrees to marry him. Kaye Gibbons conjures up a vivid portrait of an unlikely, but successful marriage set against a land that connects past troubles and present loss with future hopes.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Published: 08 Aug 1996
ISBN 10: 1860491154
ISBN 13: 9781860491153