Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart - Softcover

Oates, Joyce Carol

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9780525248606: Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart

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ISBN 10: 0525248609 ISBN 13: 9780525248606

Publisher: E P Dutton, 1990

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Iris Courtney, a young white woman living in upstate New York in the decade prior to the Civil rights movement, begins a clandestine relationship with Jinx Fairchild, a black man who had defended her in a fatal street fight with a white man

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Review:

"Fiction of Extraordinary imaginative power."
Marilynne Robinson, The New York Times Book Review

An impressive performance fearless There seems to be no erotic passion, no violence of act or language, no addiction, no fatal failure of nerve that is beyond Oates reach when it comes to rendering it in fiction.
Seattle Times/Post-Intelligencer

Oates is a master novelist. thrilling momentum it s hard to stop reading "

"Fiction of extraordinary imaginative power." Marilynne Robinson, The New York Times Book Review

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"Fiction of extraordinary imaginative power."--Marilynne Robinson, The New York Times Book Review

"An impressive performance ... fearless ... There seems to be no erotic passion, no violence of act or language, no addiction, no fatal failure of nerve that is beyond Oates' reach when it comes to rendering it in fiction."--Seattle Times/Post-Intelligencer

About the Author:

In addition to many prize-winning and bestselling novels, including We Were the Mulvaneys, Black Water, Because It Is Bitter and Because It Is My Heart, and Broke Heart Blues, Joyce Carol Oates is the author of a number of works of gothic fiction including Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque, a World Fantasy Award nominee; and Zombie, winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Horror Novel, awarded by the Horror Writers' Association. In 1994, Oates received the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award in Horror Fiction. She is the editor of American Gothic Tales. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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