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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 : Ecco, 2019.
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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F OATES, J.    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION OATES    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  F OATES, J.    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F OATES    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Adult Fiction  F OATES    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  FIC OATES    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  FICTION OATES    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  FICTION OATES    Check Shelf
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 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  F OATES JOYCE CAROL    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 402 pages ; 24 cm
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."--Publisher description.
Subject Betrayal -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
Exile (Punishment) -- Fiction.
Family life -- Fiction.
Reflection (Philosophy) -- Fiction.
Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Murder -- Fiction.
Self-realization in women -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Novels.
ISBN 9780062899835 (hardcover)
006289983X (hardcover)
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