What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Author: Peter Hedges
Translator: Soo-jeong Kang
Publisher: Mangnaejipge
456 pages | 210*148mm
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About This Book
Just about everything in Endora, Iowa 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"
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