My Heart Laid Bare Paperback - 2015
by Joyce Carol Oates
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
Mythic in scope and ballad-like in the telling, "My Heart Laid Bare" is the sweeping saga of the fortunes and misfortunes of a family of enterprising confidence artists in 19th-century America.
Description
Details
- Title My Heart Laid Bare
- Author Joyce Carol Oates
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 624
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Date 2015
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0062269259I4N00
- ISBN 9780062269256 / 0062269259
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Swindlers and swindling
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
Finally returned to print in a beautiful paperback edition, a haunting gothic tale of a nineteenth-century immigrant family of confidence artists--a story of morality, duplicity, and retribution that explores the depths of human manipulation and vulnerability
The patriarch of the Licht family, Abraham has raised a brood of talented con artists, children molded in his image, and experts in The Game, his calling and philosophy of life. Traveling from one small town to the next across the continent, from the Northeast to the frontier West, they skillfully swindle unsuspecting victims, playing on their greed, lust, pride, and small-mindedness. Despite their success, Abraham cannot banish a past that haunts him: the ghost of his ancestor Sarah Licht, a former con woman who met with a gruesome fate.
As Abraham involves his family in more and more complex and impressive schemes, he finds himself caught between the specter of Sarah and the growing terrors of his present. While his carefully crafted lies and schemes begin to fracture and disintegrate before his eyes, Abraham discovers that the bond of family is as tenuous and treacherous as the tricks he perpetrates upon unsuspecting strangers.
