What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Digital Original)
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- Synopsis
- &“Wonderfully entertaining . . . This distinctive first novel goes down like a chocolate milkshake but boasts the sharpness and finesse of a complex wine&” (Publishers Weekly). Gilbert Grape is a twenty-four-year-old grocery store clerk stuck in Endora, Iowa, where the population is 1,091 and shrinking. After the suicide of Gilbert&’s father, his family never fully recovered. Once the town beauty queen, Gilbert&’s mother is now morbidly obese and planted eternally in front of the TV; his younger sister has recently turned both boy-crazy and God-fearing, while his older sister sacrifices everything for her family. And then there&’s Arnie, Gilbert&’s younger brother with special needs. With no one else to care for Arnie, Gilbert becomes his brother&’s main parent, and all four siblings must tend to the needs of their helpless, grieving mother. So Gilbert is in a rut—until a mysterious new girl named Becky arrives in this small town. As his family gathers for Arnie&’s eighteenth birthday, Gilbert finds himself at a crossroads . . . This &“completely original&” portrait of a family (The New York Times), &“charged with sardonic intelligence&” (The Washington Post Book World), was the basis for a film starring Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio, and stands as one of the most memorable novels of recent decades. &“Sometimes funny, sometimes sad . . . and always engaging.&” —The Atlantic &“By the book&’s exhilaratingly luminous ending . . . we have already been mesmerized.&” —The Philadelphia Inquirer &“A funny, touching, caring first novel whose characters are familiar and moving in spite of (or perhaps because of) their peculiarities.&” —Booklist
- Copyright:
- 2014
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 319 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780795343223
- Publisher:
- RosettaBooks
- Date of Addition:
- 09/21/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Peter Hedges
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.