Title:
We were the Mulvaneys / Joyce Carol Oates.
ISBN:
9780525942238
9780452282827
9780452277205
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Publication Information:
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Dutton, [1996]
Physical Description:
viii, 454 pages ; 24 cm.
General Note:
"A William Abrahams book."
Contents:
Family pictures. Storybook house ; The doe ; St. Valentine's 1976 ; Ringing the cowbell ; Family code ; Dirty girl ; Providence ; Strawberries & cream ; Secrets ; The revelation ; Babies ; Damaged girl ; The lovers ; Imminent mortality ; Every heartbeat! ; The assault ; The penitent ; Ask Dad ; Boys will be boys! ; Phase ; Gone -- "The huntsman". One by one ; Valedictory speech ; Snow after Easter ; "The huntsman" ; Plastica ; Dignity ; Reverse prayer ; The accomplice ; Brothers ; Crossing over ; The handshake ; The bog -- "The pilgrim". Tears ; Green Isle ; The pilgrim ; The proposal ; Rag-quilt life -- Hard reckoning. Hard reckoning ; On my own ; The white horse ; Stump Creek Hill ; Intensive care ; Gone -- Epilogue. Reunion : Fourth of July 1993.
Summary:
A family of six disintegrates after a daughter is raped by a high-school student. It happens to the wealthy Mulvaneys in upstate New York. The disgrace -- there is some question if it was rape -- sends the father to drink and financial ruin, the girl leaves home, the others follow. By the author of What I Lived For.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader UG 7.4 30 56913.
Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.4 30 56913.
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OCLC Number:
ocm34590958
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