description: Nominated for the National Book Award in 1974, this haunting, profoundly disquieting novel manages to be at once sparse and lush, to combine Biblical simplicity with Gothic intensity and strangeness. It is the story of Kate, despised by her mother, bound to her father by ties stronger and darker than blood. It is the story of her attempted escapesâˆ’in detached sexual encounters, at a Southern college populated by spoiled and perverse beauties, and in a doomed marriage to a man who cannot understand what she is running from. Witty, erotic, searing acute, State of Grace bears the inimitable stamp of one of our fines and most provocative writers.
language: English
title: State of grace
titlecomplete: State of grace
genres: Fiction, Adult Fiction, Gothic, The United States Of America, Womens, American, Literary Fiction, Female Authors, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 595
awards: awardedAt: 126259200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: NY: PARIS REVIEW EDITIONS. 1973