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New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates returns with an incendiary novel that illuminates the tragic impact of sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power on innocent lives and probes the persistence of stereotypes, the nature of revenge, the complexities of truth, and our insatiable hunger for sensationalism.
When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanizes her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades. In this magisterial work of fiction, Joyce Carol Oates explores the uneasy fault lines in a racially troubled society. In such a tense, charged atmosphere, Oates reveals that there must always be a sacrifice—of innocence, truth, trust, and, ultimately, of lives. Unfolding in a succession of multiracial voices, in a community transfixed by this alleged crime and the spectacle unfolding around it, this profound novel exposes what—and who—the “sacrifice” actually is, and what consequences these kind of events hold for us all.
Working at the height of her powers, Oates offers a sympathetic portrait of the young girl and her mother, and challenges our expectations and beliefs about our society, our biases, and ourselves. As the chorus of its voices—from the police to the media to the victim and her family—reaches a crescendo, The Sacrifice offers a shocking new understanding of power and oppression, innocence and guilt, truth and sensationalism, justice and retribution.
A chilling exploration of complex social, political, and moral themes—the enduring trauma of the past, modern racial and class tensions, the power of secrets, and the primal decisions we all make to protect those we love—The Sacrifice is a major work of fiction from one of our most revered literary masters.
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Joyce Carol Oates [...] is simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going, as far as I’m concerned. (Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl)
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Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Accursed. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
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- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 2848765461
- ISBN 13 9782848765464
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: NEUF. 1987, dans un quartier noir délabré d'une ville du New Jersey, une mère cherche partout sa fille, Sybilla, disparue depuis trois jours. L'adolescente sera retrouvée, ligotée, le corps barbouillé d'excréments et d'injures racistes, dans les sous-sols d'une vieille usine abandonnée. Emmenée aux urgences, elle accuse des " flics blancs " de l'avoir enlevée, battue et violée.Ce terrible acte de violence choque profondément sa communauté, où personne ne fait confiance à la police blanche, et exacerbe les tensions raciales frémissant depuis des décennies. Un pasteur noir et son frère, avocat militant des droits civiques récupèrent l'affaire qu'ils exploitent au mieux de leurs intérêts ; imités rapidement par le Prince noir, leader du Royaume de l'islam, plus redoutable encore. La vérité n'importe guère à ces leaders religieux, les médias s'en soucient tout aussi peu, et pourtant les faits se révèlent progressivement de plus en plus troubles.Dans un choeur de voix et de points de vue qui va crescendo - de la police aux médias en passant par la victime et sa famille -, l'auteure offre une nouvelle compréhension, choquante, du pouvoir et de l'oppression, de l'innocence et de la culpabilité, de la vérité et du sensationnalisme, de la justice et du châtiment.S'inspirant, comme souvent, d'un fait divers réel, Joyce Carol Oates explore les lignes de faille d'une société toujours troublée par la question de la race et signe un roman profond et incendiaire. - Nombre de page(s) : 356 - Poids : 428g - Langue : ANGLAIS (ETATS-UNIS) - Genre : Littérature Anglo-Saxonne. Seller Inventory # N9782848765464
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