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Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
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ISBN: 0452265819
Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
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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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Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart