A Virtuous Woman, Kaye Gibbons
A Virtuous Woman, Kaye Gibbons
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A Virtuous Woman

Author: Kaye Gibbons

Narrator: Terry Beaver, Kaye Gibbons

Abridged: 3 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/1997

Synopsis

When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never asked a woman to do more than help him hitch a mule. They didn't fall in love so much as they simply found each other and held on for dear life.
In A Virtuous Woman, Kaye Gibbons transcends her early promise, creating a multilayered and indelibly convincing portrait of two seemingly ill-matched people who somehow miraculously make a marriage.

About Kaye Gibbons

Kaye Gibbons was born in 1960 in Nash County, North Carolina, on Bend of the River Road. She attended North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying American and English literature. At twenty-six years old, she wrote her first novel, Ellen Foster. She is also the author of A Virtuous Woman, Charms for the Easy Life, On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon, A Cure for Dreams, Sights Unseen, and Divining Women.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michelle on January 01, 2009

Have you ever read a book and felt so distant from it shocked you when you realized you were actually in tears? This novel, such a quick read that a devoted reader will finish it in one sitting, seems so benign and irrelevant, yet works its way into your heart. By the end I found myself shockingly g......more

Goodreads review by Daisy on October 28, 2023

The story of a marriage from its inception through to the premature death of the wife. It is no grand passion, no Romeo and Juliet but the quiet loving relationship between two people jaded by life who, by finding each other, experience more happiness than either feel deserving of. Ruby has made poor......more

Goodreads review by Ines on June 08, 2019

3,5* well deserved...the story is very simple, the love between a husband and his wife told until the tragic epilogue with the death of the woman for cancer. A tale with no particolar plot.... made of simple events, maybe even banal ( this is the reason for 3,5 stars), but reported in words as very......more

Goodreads review by Drebbles on July 25, 2009

Beautifully written, A Virtuous Women, is the quiet love story of Ruby Pitt Woodrow, daughter of a rich farmer, and Jack Stokes, a tenant farmer. At first they seem an unlikely match, Ruby, although 20 years younger than Jack, is already widowed, Jack, unattractive and unsuccessful, has never been m......more

Goodreads review by Kris (My Novelesque Life) on April 23, 2021

RATING: 4 STARS I enjoy Gibbons writing style and find that her stories are quite emotional. While this novel is quite short, the story is a powerful punch. I enjoyed this novel and am ready for more Kaye Gibbons.......more

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