I'll Take You There: A Novel
 

I'll Take You There: A Novel

by Joyce Carol Oates

"Anellia" is a young student who, though gifted with a penetrating intelligence, is drastically inclined to obsession. Funny, mordant, and compulsive, she falls passionately in love with a brilliant yet elusive black philosophy student. But she is tested most severely by a figure out of her past she'd long believed dead.

Astonishingly intimate and unsparing, and pitiless in... (read more)

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  • beadology

    beadology said:

    Not my favorite Oates read. It was all pretty grim. I had to consider the first two parts as from the perspective of someone who is mentally ill to get through them. She seemed more stable in part three but it was certainly grim, too. Two questions someone perhaps will answer: Am I correct that the we never knew "Aneila's" real name? I can't face reading it again to find out!! And I'm assuming that it was Hildie that did not want her to look at her father because she was burning him; does anyone else think this?

    posted Saturday, April 26 2008
  • Soha S

    soha s said:

    To be honest I didn't like the first part of the book, but when it comes to love it was completely different the "negro lover" part s totally amazing.. iam still reading it...

    posted Saturday, January 26 2008
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