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Joyce Carol Oates is in full fire here. The motifs and themes of this rich, intricately textured, realistic novel belong to the American experience of the 1950s and '60s. But the vision of life that animates them is so clear and unflinching that the past comes to us with the force of... read more
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"Little Red" Garlock, sixteen years old, skull smashed soft as a rotted pumpkins and body dumped into the Cassadaga River near the foot of Pitt Street, must not have sunk as he'd been intended to sink, or floated as far.
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- Joyce Carol Oates (Author)
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