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The clam shell / by Mary Lee Settle ; with a new introduction by the author.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.E84 C5 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Settle, Mary Lee.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First University of South Carolina Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 1995.
- Summary:
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 1570030995
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