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My Life as a Rat: A Novel
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My Life as a Rat: A Novel Trade paperback - 2020

by Joyce Carol Oates

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Ecco, May 2020. Trade Paperback. Very Good - Cash. Minor rubbing and edge wear to cover, with light reader wear to pages. Still great condition. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.
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  • Title My Life as a Rat: A Novel
  • Author Joyce Carol Oates
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Condition Used - Very Good - Cash
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ecco
  • Date May 2020
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 869348
  • ISBN 9780062899842 / 0062899848
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.1 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54

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From the rear cover

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.