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Cavedweller
A Novel
Dorothy Allison - Author
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Book: Paperback | 5.31 x 7.99in | 448 pages | ISBN 9780452279698 | 01 May 1999 | Plume | 18 - AND UP
Cavedweller
When Delia Byrd packs up her old Datsun and her daughter Cissy and gets on the Santa Monica Freeway heading south and east, she is leaving everything she has known for ten years: the tinsel glitter of the rock 'n' roll world; her dreams of singing and songwriting; and a life lived on credit cards and whiskey with a man who made promises he couldn't keep. Delia Byrd is going back to Cayro, Georgia, to reclaim her life--and the two daughters she left behind... Told in the incantatory voice of one of America's most eloquent storytellers, Cavedweller is a sweeping novel of the human spirit, the lost and hidden recesses of the heart, and the place where violence and redemption intersect.

Los Angeles Times Book Prize: Nominee
Lambda Literary Award

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