| What's Eating Gilbert Grape Contributor(s): Hedges, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0671038540 ISBN-13: 9780671038540 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1999 Annotation: 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.... 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" (Washington Post Book World). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Sagas - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.3" W x 8.2" (0.74 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Heartland - Cultural Region - Midwest - Demographic Orientation - Small Town - Geographic Orientation - Iowa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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.... 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 (Washington Post Book World). |
Contributor Bio(s): Hedges, Peter: - Peter Hedges, the author of What's Eating Gilbert Grape, grew up in West Des Moines, Iowa. |