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Cavedweller

Dorothy Allison

2000434 pagesabout 7–10 hours
2000
first published
  • 1998Dutton · 434 pages · ENGISBN 9780525941675
  • 1998Abacus · 434 pages · ENGISBN 9780349111063
  • 1998Thorndike Press · 682 pages · ENGISBN 9780786215034
  • 2009Penguin USA, Inc. · ENGISBN 9781101121764
  • 2000Editions 10/18 · 541 pagesISBN 9782264029706
  • 1998DuttonISBN 9780965038720
  • 1998Bookcassette · ENGISBN 9781561007882
  • 1999Plume · 448 pages · ENGISBN 9780452279698

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.

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