Bastard Out of Carolina

""The day I was born started off bad, and it only got worse.""

Bastard Out of Carolina is a novel by Dorothy Allison set in 1950's rural South Carolina. It tells the story of Annie Boatwright and her daughter Ruth Anne "Bone" Boatwright.

Adapted into a film in 1996.


 * Coming of Age Story
 * Deep South
 * Heroic Bastard: Bone.
 * Rape as Drama