Only Piece of Furniture

by Diane Glancy

Book Overview

The confusing passage to adulthood is the heart of Glancy's slender, poignant and powerful story of an innocent, deeply religious teenage girl. The second oldest of nine children, Rachel Hume learned... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559211830
• ISBN13: 9781559211833
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Moyer Bell
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Religion, poverty, and poetry combined in a powerful novel

Glancy is an underratted underknown writer of incredible sensitivity and expression. Her prose is consistently understated, but that doesn't keep it from conveying anguish and complexity in this story of an innocent girl in a gritty landscape. Closest to Kaye Gibbons, but Gibbons is looser. Oprah Oprah, why haven't you read this one???