Deliver Us from Evie (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Marijane Meaker
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Young adult literature
- Subjects: Teenagers, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Religion, Lesbianism or lesbians, Farms, farmers, or farming, Floods
- Locales: Missouri
In Deliver Us from Evie, fifteen-year-old Parr Burrman's main concern in life is that his older siblings Doug and Evie will take over the family farm someday so that Parr does not have to. Although Doug has seemed to turn away from farming since going away to college, Evie seems perfectly fine with farming, a life to which she is well suited given her mechanical abilities and her lack of concern with material possessions and social status. Evie's world is changed, however, when she strikes up a friendship with Patsy Duff, the daughter of the town's wealthiest and most...
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