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Author Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- author.

Title My life as a rat : a novel / Joyce Carol Oates.

Publication Info. [New York] : HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019]
©2019

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Large Print Materials  LP OATES    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  LP FICTION OATES    Check Shelf
Edition First HarperLuxe edition.
Description 558 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Physical Medium large print rda
Summary 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.
Subject Exile (Punishment) -- Fiction.
African American boys -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
Hate crimes -- Fiction.
Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Betrayal -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
Reflection (Philosophy) -- Fiction.
Self-realization in women -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Alienation (Social psychology) (OCoLC)fst00805268
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
ISBN 9780062911513 (paperback ; large print)
0062911511 (paperback ; large print)
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