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Author Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-

Title We were the Mulvaneys / Joyce Carol Oates.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Dutton, [1996]
©1996

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION OATES    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F OATES    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Adult Fiction  F OATES c.2  Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  FICTION OATES    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  F OATES    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  F OAT    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FICTION OATES c.5  Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Storage  FICTION OATES c.2  Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  OATES, JOYCE CAROL    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials  OATES, JOYCE CAROL    Check Shelf

Description viii, 454 pages ; 24 cm
Note "A William Abrahams book."
Contents Family pictures. Storybook house ; The doe ; St. Valentine's 1976 ; Ringing the cowbell ; Family code ; Dirty girl ; Providence ; Strawberries and cream ; Secrets ; The revelation ; Babies ; Damaged girl ; The lovers ; Imminent mortality ; Every heartbeat! ; The assault ; The penitent ; Ask Dad ; Boys will be boys! ; Phase ; Gone -- "The huntsman". One by one ; Valedictory speech ; Snow after Easter ; "The huntsman" ; Plastica ; Dignity ; Reverse prayer ; The accomplice ; Brothers ; Crossing over ; The handshake ; The bog -- "The pilgrim". Tears ; Green Isle ; The pilgrim ; The proposal ; Rag-quilt life -- Hard reckoning. Hard reckoning ; On my own ; The white horse ; Stump Creek Hill ; Intensive care ; Gone -- Epilogue. Reunion : Fourth of July 1993.
Summary A family of six disintegrates after a daughter is raped by a high-school student. It happens to the wealthy Mulvaneys in upstate New York. The disgrace--there is some question if it was rape--sends the father to drink and financial ruin, the girl leaves home, the others follow. By the author of What I Lived For.
Subject New York (State) -- Fiction.
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Rape victims -- Fiction.
Farm life -- Fiction.
Farm life. (OCoLC)fst00921052
Rape victims. (OCoLC)fst01090022
Teenage girls. (OCoLC)fst01145412
New York (State) (OCoLC)fst01210280
Genre/Form Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Other Form: Online version: Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- We were the Mulvaneys. New York. N.Y., U.S.A. : Dutton, ©1996 (OCoLC)604924508
ISBN 0525942238 (acid-free paper)
9780525942238 (acid-free paper)
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