· Kaye Gibbons was born in Nash County, North Carolina, and attended North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel HIll. Her firs. "What a good ear Kaye Gibbons has, and what a good heart. A Cure for Dreams takes the reader down the back roads, and then points out what incredible lives are lived in those ordinary places." —The Washington Post Book World. · A Cure for Dreams A Novel. Kaye Gibbons. In “a witty and explosive story about men and women, bad girls and good girls, love and laundry,” Kaye Gibbons paints a portrait of shrewd, resourceful women prevailing through hardships and finding unexpected pleasures along the way: gossip.
A Cure for Dreams. ebook ∣ A Novel. By Kaye Gibbons. "This episodic novel, Gibbons's third, is set during the Depression in back-country Virginia and Kentucky. In 19 vignettes, Betty Davies Randolph reveals her childhood and her mother's life along Milk Farm Road. A Cure for Dreams, Gibbons's third novel, was written with the help of a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts. In preparing for writing this novel, Gibbons read transcripts from the Federal Writers' Project of the Great Depression and found much inspiration in the voices of the common. A Cure for Dreams — Kaye Gibbons. Book Lists. A Cure for Dreams, a richly woven story that traces the bonds between four generations of Southern women through stories passed from mother to daughter to granddaughter.
A Cure for Dreams: A Novel - Kindle edition by Gibbons, Kaye. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A Cure for Dreams: A Novel. That tradition continues in A Cure for Dreams, a richly woven story that traces the bonds between four generations of Southern women through stories passed from mother to daughter to granddaughter. Gibbons shows us shrewd, resourceful women prevailing over hard times and heartless men and finding unexpected pleasures along the way: gossip, gambling, and the quiet satisfaction of knowing more than they're supposed to. A Cure for Dreams is a well-written story created by Kaye Gibbons. In this novel she traces the close and itimate relationship between four generations of Southern women, beginning with the great-grandmother and ending with the great-granddaughter.
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