What's Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges
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"Â (Washington Post Book World).
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....
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Format: Paperback | 336 pages
Dimensions (cm): 17.8 x 11.2 x 2.1 | 284g -
Publication Date: 25 Apr 1994Â
Publisher: Mandarin Paperbacks
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Edition Statement: Media tie-in
ISBN10: 0749336137
ISBN13: 9780749336134
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Condition: Good
A vintage book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including minor creasing and scuff marks along the edges, and some scratching, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with very minimal creasing (very minor crease on the last page only), but no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. No missing pages.