The Book of Ruth

A Novel

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Author:

Hamilton, Jane

ISBN:

978-0-385-26570-6

Publication Date:

Dec 1989

Publisher:

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Imprint:

Anchor

Book Format:

Paperback

List Price:

USD $16.95

Book Description:

Winner of the 1989 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Awardfor best first novel, this exquisite bookconfronts real-life issues of alienation and violencefrom which the author creates a stunning testamentto the human capacity for mercy, compassion andlove.

Book Details

Pages:	336
Detailed Subjects:	Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	5.109 x 7.878 x 0.819 Inches
Book Weight:	0.623 Pounds

Author Biography

Hamilton, Jane (Author)

Jane Hamilton was born in 1957. She is the author of The Book of Ruth, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction. A Map of the World, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year was named one of the top ten books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly, The Miami Herald, and People. Both The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World have been selections of Oprah's Book Club. A Map of the World was recently made into a major motion picture, starring Sigourney Weaver and Julianne Moore. Her work, The Short History of a Prince, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998.

She lives in Rochester, Wisconsin.

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