The Resource What's eating Gilbert Grape, Peter Hedges
What's eating Gilbert Grape, Peter Hedges
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- Summary
- 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)
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 319 pages
- Label
- What's eating Gilbert Grape
- Title
- What's eating Gilbert Grape
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Hedges
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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)
- Cataloging source
- JRS
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- Hedges, Peter
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- Iowa
- Iowa
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- What's eating Gilbert Grape, Peter Hedges
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 657424
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 319 pages
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)42751197
- Label
- What's eating Gilbert Grape, Peter Hedges
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 657424
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 319 pages
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)42751197
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