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Synopsis
A family drama and a love story, set against a background of racial tension in 1950s and early 1960s America.
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"Fiction of Extraordinary imaginative power."
Marilynne Robinson, The New York Times Book Review
An impressive performance fearless There seems to be no erotic passion, no violence of act or language, no addiction, no fatal failure of nerve that is beyond Oates reach when it comes to rendering it in fiction.
Seattle Times/Post-Intelligencer
Oates is a master novelist. thrilling momentum it s hard to stop reading "
"Fiction of extraordinary imaginative power." Marilynne Robinson, The New York Times Book Review
An impressive performance fearless There seems to be no erotic passion, no violence of act or language, no addiction, no fatal failure of nerve that is beyond Oates reach when it comes to rendering it in fiction. Seattle Times/Post-Intelligencer
""Fiction of extraordinary imaginative power."--Marilynne Robinson, The New York Times Book Review
"An impressive performance ... fearless ... There seems to be no erotic passion, no violence of act or language, no addiction, no fatal failure of nerve that is beyond Oates' reach when it comes to rendering it in fiction."--Seattle Times/Post-Intelligencer
About the Author
In addition to many prize-winning and bestselling novels, including We Were the Mulvaneys, Black Water, Because It Is Bitter and Because It Is My Heart, and Broke Heart Blues, Joyce Carol Oates is the author of a number of works of gothic fiction including Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque, a World Fantasy Award nominee; and Zombie, winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Horror Novel, awarded by the Horror Writers' Association. In 1994, Oates received the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award in Horror Fiction. She is the editor of American Gothic Tales. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
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Because it is Bitter and Because it is My Heart
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Macmillan, 1991
ISBN 10: 0333552024
ISBN 13: 9780333552025
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