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Because it is bitter, and because it is my heart / Joyce Carol Oates

By:

Oates, Joyce Carol, , 1938-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Plume , 1991, c1990.Description: 405 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780452265813

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Domestic fiction

DDC classification:

FIC OAT

LOC classification:

PS3565.A8 B4318 1991

Summary: Joyce Carol Oates adds to her extraordinary body of work with this stunning novel of violence and love. At the heart of the story are two people, Iris Courtney, who is white, and handsome Jinx Fairchild, the black basketball player who, in protecting Iris, kills a white man. Iris is the only witness to the crime. The two of them are growing up in the early 1950s in a New York industrial town where racial boundaries keep people apart-or bring them together in explosive scenes of fear or desire. The secret link between Iris and Jinx is not only their attraction to each other, but a murder ... and a bond of passion and guilt is formed between them. How this one irrevocable, tragic act shapes their lives and alters their destinies becomes Joyce Carol Oatesrsquo; finest, emotion-packed novel-a work the critics are calling a masterpiece, the best work of Americarsquo;s best writer of contemporary realism.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC OAT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		030974

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"A William Abrahams book."

Joyce Carol Oates adds to her extraordinary body of work with this stunning novel of violence and love. At the heart of the story are two people, Iris Courtney, who is white, and handsome Jinx Fairchild, the black basketball player who, in protecting Iris, kills a white man. Iris is the only witness to the crime. The two of them are growing up in the early 1950s in a New York industrial town where racial boundaries keep people apart-or bring them together in explosive scenes of fear or desire. The secret link between Iris and Jinx is not only their attraction to each other, but a murder ... and a bond of passion and guilt is formed between them. How this one irrevocable, tragic act shapes their lives and alters their destinies becomes Joyce Carol Oatesrsquo; finest, emotion-packed novel-a work the critics are calling a masterpiece, the best work of Americarsquo;s best writer of contemporary realism.

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