Because IT is Bitter, And Because IT is my Heart (Plume) [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Oates, Joyce Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452265819 ISBN 13: 9780452265813

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 1991

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Book by Oates Joyce Carol

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Praise for Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart

"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's 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."--USA Today

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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 Oates’ finest, emotion-packed novel—a work the critics are calling a masterpiece, the best work of America’s best writer of contemporary realism.

. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0452265819
• ISBN 13: 9780452265813
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416