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

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

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My interest in this story was initially poked during one of my husbands daily devotion. That days lesson was entitled Greatness written by Brian K. Bauknight and the Bible reference was from Proverbs 31:10-31. That day was my birthday.A virtuous woman, Ruby was diagnosed with Lung Cancer. Instead of worrying on her dying state, she busied herself preparing food for her husband for the months ahead when shes already gone. She was more worried about how Jack will get by without her. Being

The setting is Carolina in what seems to be the 1940's. These people are poor and their language shows their poor education.Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow when he was 40 and she was 20. When he meets her she was married but soon becomes a widow. Her first husband taught her to smoke and lung cancer is what kills her at 45. Jack and Ruby do marry. The story itself alternates between the thoughts of Jack and the thoughts of Ruby. This is the story of a love that transcends death.What

Part of Oprah's book club... and now I know why. Concise, provacative, and sassy. I really enjoyed it and read in in just a couple days. I plan on reading more of her books. Does contain some 'farmer language.' This is the kind of book that makes me want to write.

One of the reviews on this book was from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper. Their review states, "So true and so vital I would swear there were moments when A VIRTUOUS WOMAN actually vibrated in my hands." When I read that review, I just knew that this book would be a 'good read.' I was so disappointed with this book. The only vibrating that I experienced while reading this book was when I experienced convulsions from a boredom seizure. I didn't like the characters-- except for Mavis,

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

RATING: 4 STARS (Review Not on Blog)I enjoy Gibbons writing style and find that her stories are quite emotional. While this novel is quite short, the story is a powerful punch. I enjoyed this novel and am ready for more Kaye Gibbons.

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.