Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart Paperback - 1991
by Joyce Carol Oates
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 revelation. "Fiction of extraordinary imaginative power".--The New York Times Book Review. Nominated for the National Book Award.
Summary
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.
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- Title Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
- Author Joyce Carol Oates
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Plume Books, New York
- Date 1991-03-30
- ISBN 9780452265813 / 0452265819
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.36 x 0.93 in (20.32 x 13.61 x 2.36 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects New York (State), Domestic fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 90019681
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
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’ 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’
Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 02/08/1991, Page 0
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