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Original Title:	A Virtuous Woman
ISBN:	0375703063 (ISBN13: 9780375703065)
Edition Language:	English

A Virtuous Woman

Kaye Gibbons

Paperback | Pages: 165 pages

Rating: 3.69 | 23793 Users | 618 Reviews

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When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never asked a woman to do more than help him hitch a mule. They didn't fall in love so much as they simply found each other and held on for dear life.

Kaye Gibbons's first novel, Ellen Foster, won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the praise of writers from Walker Percy to Eudora Welty. In A Virtuous Woman, Gibbons transcends her early promise, creating a multilayered and indelibly convincing portrait of two seemingly ill-matched people who somehow miraculously make a marriage.

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Title	:	A Virtuous Woman
Author	:	Kaye Gibbons
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 165 pages
Published	:	November 5th 1997 by Vintage (first published April 30th 1989)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary

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Ratings: 3.69 From 23793 Users | 618 Reviews

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3,5* well deserved...the story is very simple, the love between a husband and his wife told until the tragic epilogue with the death of the woman for cancer. A tale with no particolar plot.... made of simple events, maybe even banal ( this is the reason for 3,5 stars), but reported in words as very few writers manage to do.I love Gibbons, her writing is clear, straight and direct... It reminds me a lot of Eudora Welty, but the Gibbons also masterfully manages to use a continuous irony here and

I didnt really care for this book. It wasn't bad, it just didnt captivate me, it was something to do, more than a book I couldn't put down... I actually read up to the last 10 pages and didnt bother to finish, I just wasnt that interested....

Kaye Gibbons is one hell of a writer. She portrays moments of bliss as well as heartaches in a vivid way. I loved how she throws her lines or should I say punchlines. There's not much of a twist though. Still definitely a good read.

I like this and I like the style Gibbons has in general. Vivid, something you can sink your fingers into while reading. It's warm as well, tender at the right places. I wish these characters were perhaps a little more individual than their concept types, but it's still a good book even with that. I enjoyed reading.

3,5* well deserved...the story is very simple, the love between a husband and his wife told until the tragic epilogue with the death of the woman for cancer. A tale with no particolar plot.... made of simple events, maybe even banal ( this is the reason for 3,5 stars), but reported in words as very few writers manage to do.I love Gibbons, her writing is clear, straight and direct... It reminds me a lot of Eudora Welty, but the Gibbons also masterfully manages to use a continuous irony here and

Kaye Gibbon's tells a sweet love story about a relationship that seems to be based on circumstance and convenience. It's not the usual torrid and obstacle ridden love affair that usually dictates a good romance novel (ie The Notebook). I found the book to be touching and very sad.

I would give this lovely little book 3.5/5 stars. It is told in alternating chapters, in the voices of Jack Stokes and then his wife, Ruby. We find out early on that Ruby is dying of lung cancer, and then their back stories, as told by these two characters, fill in the rest of this short novel. It starts out. "She hasn't been dead four months and I've already eaten to the bottom of the deep freeze. I even ate the green peas. Used to I wouldn't turn my hand over for green peas."The book flows