What's eating Gilbert Grape
(Book)
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Published
New York : Washington Square Press, 1999.
ISBN
9780671038540, 0671038540
Status
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
FICTION HEDGES, P.
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Published
New York : Washington Square Press, 1999.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780671038540, 0671038540
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Just about everything in Endora, Iowa (pop. 1,091 and dwindling) is eating Gilbert Grape, a twenty-four-year-old grocery clerk who dreams only of leaving. His enormous mother, once the town sweetheart, has been eating nonstop ever since her husband's suicide, and the floor beneath her TV chair is threatening to cave in. Gilbert's long-suffering older sister, Amy, still mourns the death of Elvis, and his knockout younger sister has become hooked on makeup, boys, and Jesus-in that order. But the biggest event on the horizon for all the Grapes is the eighteenth birthday of Gilbert's younger brother, Arnie, who is a living miracle just for having survived so long. As the Grapes gather in Endora, a mysterious beauty glides through town on a bicycle and rides circles around Gilbert, until he begins to see a new vision of his family and himself. With this wry portrait of small-town Iowa and a young man's life at the crossroads, Peter Hedges created a classic American novel charged with sardonic intelligence. (Washington Post Book World).
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Hedges, P. (1999). What's eating Gilbert Grape . Washington Square Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hedges, Peter. 1999. What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Washington Square Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hedges, Peter. What's Eating Gilbert Grape Washington Square Press, 1999.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Hedges, Peter. What's Eating Gilbert Grape Washington Square Press, 1999.
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