We Were the Mulvaneys

Zusatztext The unforgettable story of the rise! fall and ultimate redemption of anAmerican family. The Mulvaneys are seemingly blessed by everything thatmakes life sweet. They live together in the picture-perfect High PointFarm! where they are respected and liked by everybody. Yet something happenson Valentine's Day 1976. An incident involving Marianne Mulvaney! the prettysixteen-year-old daughter! is hushed up in the town and never discussedwithin the family. The impact of this event reverberates throughout thelives of the characters. As told by Judd! years later! in an attempt tomake sense of his own past reveals the unspoken truths of that night thatrends the fabric of the family life with tragic consequences. Informationen zum Autor Joyce Carol Oates is a novelist, critic, playwright, poet and author of short stories and one of America’s most respected literary figures. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde . She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University and a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. Klappentext A reissue of the acclaimed modern American novel. A story of the rise, fall and possible redemption of an American family. Zusammenfassung A masterful novel about a violent crime and its reverberations throughout a community – as timely and relevant in 2019 as it was when first published in 2001

Product details

• Authors: Joyce C. Oates, Joyce Carol Oates
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.07.2001
• EAN: 9781841156996
• ISBN: 978-1-84115-699-6
• No. of pages: 454
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 197 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Oprah's Book Club; Fourth-Estate Paperback; Oprah's Book Club; Fourth-Estate Paperback
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); New York, FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Satire, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, The American Family;1970S;York