The painters of Lexieville, Sharon Darrow
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The painters of Lexieville, Sharon Darrow
Language
eng
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Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The painters of Lexieville
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electronic resource
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Sharon Darrow
Summary
Lexieville, Arkansas, can hardly be called a real town. It's nothing but a jumble of unpainted shotgun shacks squatting at the end of a muddy, rutted road. To Pertrisha "Pert" Lexie, that road is like a sign, a warning that there's no welcome for outsiders who might venture into Lexieville, and little chance of her getting out. Pert's mother, Truly, had dreams once upon a time, but now they're worn threadbare as a hand-me-down quilt. Pert's brother, Jobe, a high-school dropout, appears to be trapped in Lexieville, too. Only Pert is still determined to shake the dust of Lexieville off her feet and put on a new life like a bright, fresh coat of paint. With only a few self-defense classes, an occasional helping hand from a county welfare worker, and her own fierce dreams to aid her, Pert fights to overcome the suffocating fatalism of generations and to fend off the violent advances of a bitter uncle
Target audience
adult
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Subject
- Revenge -- Fiction
- Snake cults (Holiness churches) -- Fiction
- Brothers -- Fiction
- Arkansas -- Fiction
- Poor people -- Arkansas -- Fiction
- Mothers -- Fiction
- Electronic books
- Working class -- Fiction
- Hope -- Fiction
- Country life -- Arkansas -- Fiction
- Ambition in teenage girls -- Fiction
- Determination in teenage girls -- Fiction
- Seventeen-year-old girls -- Arkansas -- Fiction
- Family problems -- Fiction
- Violence in men -- Fiction
- Poverty -- Fiction
- Abusive men -- Fiction
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- Contributor1
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- Subject17
- Revenge -- Fiction
- Snake cults (Holiness churches) -- Fiction
- Brothers -- Fiction
- Arkansas -- Fiction
- Poor people -- Arkansas -- Fiction
- Mothers -- Fiction
- Electronic books
- Working class -- Fiction
- Hope -- Fiction
- Country life -- Arkansas -- Fiction
- Ambition in teenage girls -- Fiction
- Determination in teenage girls -- Fiction
- Seventeen-year-old girls -- Arkansas -- Fiction
- Family problems -- Fiction
- Violence in men -- Fiction
- Poverty -- Fiction
- Abusive men -- Fiction
- Content1