Oates Joyce Carol : Black Water (Hbk) by Of Humanities Joyce Carol Oates

Oates Joyce Carol : Black Water (Hbk) by Of Humanities Joyce Carol Oates

The Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling novel We Were the Mulvaneys

Taut, powerfully imagined and beautifully written, Black Water ranks with the best of Joyce Carol Oates's already long list of distinguished achievements. It can be read in a single afternoon, but, like every good book, it continues to haunt us.--The New York Times

Joyce Carol Oates has taken a shocking story that has become an American myth and, from it, has created a novel of electrifying power and illumination. Kelly Kelleher is an idealistic, twenty-six-year-old good girl when she meets the Senator at a Fourth of July party. In a brilliantly woven narrative, we enter her past and her present, her mind and her body as she is fatally attracted to this older man, this hero, this soon-to-be-lover. Kelly becomes the very embodiment of the vulnerable, romantic dreams of bright and brave women, drawn to the power that certain men command--at a party that takes on the quality of a surreal nightmare; in a tragic car ride that we hope against hope will not end as we know it must end. One of the acknowledged masters of American fiction, Joyce Carol Oates has written a bold tour de force that parts the black water to reveal the profoundest depths of human truth.

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ISBN 13	9780525934554
ISBN 10	0525934553
Title	Oates Joyce Carol : Black Water (Hbk)
Author	Of Humanities Joyce Carol Oates
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1992-05-01
Number of pages	154
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