BookMooch logo
 
home browse about join login
Peter Hedges : What's Eating Gilbert Grape
?



Author: Peter Hedges
Title: What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Moochable copies: No copies available
Amazon suggests:
>
Recommended:
>
Topics:
>
Published in: English
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Date: 1999-11-01
ISBN: 0671038540
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Weight: 0.6 pounds
Size: 5.36 x 8.24 x 0.9 inches
Edition: 10.2.1999
Amazon prices:
$1.99used
$9.33new
$9.33Amazon
Previous givers:
10
>
Previous moochers:
10
>
Wishlists:
13
>
Description: Product 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).
URL: http://bookmooch.com/0671038540
large book cover

WISHLIST ADD >

SAVE FOR LATER >

AMAZON >

OTHER WEB SITES >

RELATED EDITIONS >

RECOMMEND >

REFRESH DATA >