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Item number:250523645152
Item location:Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
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Author: Joyce Carol OatesFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group USAISBN-10: 0452269865
Edition Description: ReprintISBN-13: 9780452269866
Subject: --Publication Year: 1993
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Language: EnglishCondition: Good
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A senator from Massachusetts, who goes unnamed throughout the novel, meets Kelly Kelleher, a young writer from Boston, at a July 4th party in Maine. They leave the party to go to dinner and a motel, but on the way the drunken senator takes the wrong road. When they finally reach the ferry, which is departing as they approach the dock, the senator speeds up the car but misses the ferry and hits the water. The senator crawls over Kelly to get out of the car. She is trapped inside. Oates places this tale in the present, using recent political figures like Dukakis, Bush, and Thurgood Marshall.

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Series:Plume Contemporary Fiction

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Length:154 pages
Height:8.0 in.
Width:5.3 in.
Thickness:0.5 in.
Weight:4.8 oz.

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Joyce Carol Oates has taken a shocking story that has become an American myth and, from it, has created a novel of electrifying power and illumination. Kelly Kelleher is an idealistic, twenty-six-year-old "good girl" when she meets the Senator at a Fourth of July party. In a Brilliantly woven narrative, we enter her past and her present, her mind and her body as she is fatally attracted to this older man, this older man, this hero, this soon-to-be-lover. Kelly becomes the very embodiment of the vulnerable, romantic dreams of bright and brave women, drawn to the power that certain men command--at a party that takes on the quality of a surreal nightmare; in tragic car ride that we hope against hope will not end as we know it must end. One of the acknowledged masters of American fiction, Joyce Carol Oates has written a bold tour de force that parts the black water to reveal the profoundest depths of human truth.
The senator. The girl. The accident. In her most powerful novel to date, Oates creates an unforgettable allegory about power, morals, and ambition. The ghost of an American tragedy is resurrected in order to give voice to its silenced victim--an idealistic young woman too easily seduced by our fairy tales.

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"[Oates's] embarrassing 1992 fictionalization of Chappaquiddick, playing to readers' voyeuristic interest in a real-life story while using the liberties of a novel to tart up the facts."
Kakutani 


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