Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
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Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
Book Details
- Author
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Publisher
- Plume
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Tragedy
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780452265813
- ISBN-10
- 0452265819
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ISBN: 0452265819
Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
Condition: New
Joyce Carol Oates adds to her extraordinary body of work with this stunning National Book Award Finalist filled with violence, love, racism, and a shared secret in mid-century New York.In the early 1950s in an industrial town, racial boundaries may keep people apart-or bring them together explosively. Iris Courtney, who is white, is the only witness when handsome Jinx Fairchild, a black basketball player, kills a white man in order to protect her.The secret link between Iris and Jinx is not only their attraction to each other, but a bond of passion and guilt that has formed between them. This one irrevocable, tragic act shapes their lives and alters their destinies in Joyce Carol Oatess finest, emotion-packed novel-a work critics call a masterpiece, the best work of Americas best writer of contemporary realism.
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