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My life as a rat : a novel / Joyce Carol Oates.

Summary:

A young woman looks back on the circumstances that led up to her current life in exile from her family. Originally the beloved youngest child of seven Kerrigan children, at age twelve Violet inadvertently testified concerning the racist murder of an African-American boy by her older brothers, setting into motion their arrests and convictions and her own long estrangement from her parents, siblings and the Church.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780062899835
  • ISBN: 006289983X
  • Physical Description: 402 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019].
Subject: Betrayal > Fiction.
Life change events > Fiction.
Reflection (Philosophy) > Fiction.
Alienation (Social psychology) > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Murder > Fiction.
Self-realization in women > Fiction.
Genre: Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Novels.

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  • 59 of 61 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at McDowell County Public Library.

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