Black Water
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 1991
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 154 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780525934554
- Publisher:
- Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Date of Addition:
- 05/12/09
- Copyrighted By:
- Ontario Review, Inc.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.