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050	0	0	_aPR6053.A73 _bZ682 2017
082	1		_aFIC OAT
100	1		_aOates, Joyce Carol _d(1938-)
245	1	4	_aBabysitter _c/ Joyce Carol Oates
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, 2022
300			_a431 p. _c; 24 cm
520			_aIn the waning days of the 1970s, the lives of several residents of Detroit and its affluent white suburbs are drawn together following the disappearance of yet another child. Hannah, a wife and mother, begins an affair with a darkly charismatic stranger; Mikey, a young street hustler, finds himself on an unexpected mission to rectify injustice; and then there's the child serial killer known as Babysitter, an enigmatic and elusive figure at the periphery of elite Detroit, who has always been impossible to identify and immune to retribution. As Babysitter continues to strike - sending the city and its surroundings into pandemonium - these characters intersect, jeopardize one another, and are pushed to their limits. Suspenseful, and wholly engrossing, Babysitter asks what we would risk for a chance at a new life, and how to protect all we cherish most. A scathing indictment of the corrupt politics, unexamined racism, and sexual predation in America, Babysitter is a novel and an absolute force.
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aMissing children _v--Fiction
650		4	_aAdultery -- _vFiction
650		4	_aSerial murderers _v--Fiction
651		4	_aDetroit (Mich.) _v--Fiction
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