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Book Review of A Virtuous Woman

A Virtuous Woman
A Virtuous Woman
Author: Kaye Gibbons
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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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 disasterous 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.