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My Life as a Rat, Oates, Joyce Carol
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 0062899848
- EAN
- 9780062899842
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Type
- Paperback / softback
- Release Title
- My Life as a Rat
- Artist
- Oates, Joyce Carol
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062899848
ISBN-13
9780062899842
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14038203634
Product Key Features
Book Title
My Life As ARAT : a Novel
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Topic
Psychological, Family Life, American / General, Literary
Genre
Fiction, Literary Collections
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
10.6 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Oates's novel adroitly touches on race, loyalty, misogyny, and class inequality while also telling a moving story with a winning narrator. This book should please her fans and win her new ones., "Oates's novel adroitly touches on race, loyalty, misogyny, and class inequality while also telling a moving story with a winning narrator. This book should please her fans and win her new ones." -- Publishers Weekly
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
"A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant. You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child who is theirs? " --Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a Rat Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one's family ever justified? Can one do the right thing, but bitterly regret it? My Life as a Rat follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an African-American boy by her older brothers. In a succession of vividly recalled episodes Violet contemplates the circumstances of her life as the initially beloved youngest child of seven Kerrigan children who inadvertently "informs" on her brothers, setting into motion their arrests and convictions and her own long estrangement. Arresting and poignant, My Life as a Rat traces a life of banishment from a family--banishment from parents, siblings, and the Church--that forces Violet to discover her own identity, to break the powerful spell of family, and to emerge from her long exile as a "rat" into a transformed life., "A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant. You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child who is theirs?" --Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a Rat Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one's family ever justified? Can one do the right thing, but bitterly regret it? My Life as a Rat follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an African-American boy by her older brothers. In a succession of vividly recalled episodes Violet contemplates the circumstances of her life as the initially beloved youngest child of seven Kerrigan children who inadvertently "informs" on her brothers, setting into motion their arrests and convictions and her own long estrangement. Arresting and poignant, My Life as a Rat traces a life of banishment from a family--banishment from parents, siblings, and the Church--that forces Violet to discover her own identity, to break the powerful spell of family, and to emerge from her long exile as a "rat" into a transformed life., Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth Is telling the truth ever a mistake, and is lying for one's family ever justified Can one do the right thing but bitterly regret it My Life as a Rat follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an African American boy by her older brothers. In a succession of vividly recalled episodes, Violet contemplates the circumstances of her life as the initially beloved youngest child of seven Kerrigan children who inadvertently "informs" on her brothers, setting into motion their arrests and convictions and her long estrangement. Arresting and poignant, My Life as a Rat traces a life cast away from family-and from parents, siblings, and the Church-that forces Violet to discover her own identity, to break the powerful spell of family, and to emerge from her long banishment as a "rat" into a transformed life.
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- 1***s (276)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseGood quality and value. Arrived in good condition.
- t***y (6)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseVery pleased with this purchase! The book came in good condition as advertised. It has an aged appearance, and the pages themselves have raw-looking edges, which I find charming. Libraries near me are perpetually out of this book, and I was so happy to get to own it for great price and solid quality.
- 1***i (186)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseShipped right away, product as described. Thanks!