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The clam shell

Mary Lee Settle

1971255 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1971
first published
  • 1971Bodley Head · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9780370014487
  • 1972Delacorte Press · 255 pages · ENG
  • 1972Delacorte Press
  • 1987Scribner · 255 pages · ENGISBN 9780684187556
  • 1995University of South Carolina Press · 255 pages · ENGISBN 9781570030994
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Searching for an escape from mediocrity, the young heroine of The Clam Shell leaves her hometown of Canona, West Virginia, and enters a Southern women's college. She is not destined for the safe path, however; her brutal awakening comes in the form of a violent sexual assault through which she ultimately discovers her own hidden strength. Set in 1936, The Clam Shell continues the mesmerizing story Settle began in The Love Eaters.

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