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Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart

By Oates, Joyce Carol

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Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart

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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 Oates's finest, emotion-packed novel-a work critics call a masterpiece, the best work of America's best writer of contemporary realism.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
416
Release Date:
1991-08-29
Publication Date:
1991-03-30
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0452265819
ISBN13:
9780452265813
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
472 g
Height:
135 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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