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Author: Joyce Carol OatesFormat: --
Publisher: PlumeISBN-10: 0452277248
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A harrowing novel about Ingrid Boone, a young woman who grows up neglected and deprived of love by her mentally unstable mother and cruel, lawless father. In her search for affection and acceptance, she becomes a druggy, promiscuous teenager, then the girlfriend of a satanic biker. Eventually, Ingrid comes to understand her own compulsive behavior, and takes the first steps on the road to recovery.

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Fresh from the triumph of "We Were the Mulvaneys", Oates continues her exploration of family love and the possibilities of human redemption with this compelling story of how one young woman suffers profoundly in the pursuit of love, but manages to emerge safe and whole.
Fresh from the triumph of We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates continues her exploration of family love and possibilities of human redemption with this compelling story of how one young woman suffers profoundly in the pursuit of love, but manages to emerge safe and whole. Set in several towns on the Chatauqua River in upstate New York, Man Crazy tells the story of Ingrid Boone, who at age eight is taken into hiding by her beautiful young mother, Chloe. Sought by the men who have taunted Chloe, the authorities, and Ingrid's loving but volatile father still haunted by memories of Vietnam, Ingrid and her mother fight to survive both together and apart. "Man crazy" is the label assigned to teenage Ingrid, whose desperate need to find a substitute for her father's affection makes her easy prey for the charismatic leader of a violent cult. Eventually, the police surround the cult compound and a tense standoff erupts in bullets and flames. Ingrid escapes to rebuild her life, and Oates' depiction of this severely damaged young woman's slow but miraculous process of healing stands as one of the most brilliant portraits she has ever created. Oates' gift for haunting imagery reaches new heights in this emotionally resonant work. This will be published simultaneously with the Dutton release of a major new novel from Oates, My Heart Laid Bare. We Were the Mulvaneys was a national bestseller.

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"Reading 'Man Crazy' made me want to take a long, hot shower to wash away the sheer unpleasantness of Joyce Carol Oates' fictional world....The earliest chapters, which can successfully stand on their own and have been published as short stories, are the finest parts of the book and offer plenty of examples of Oates' literary skill and gift for offhand, surprisingly insightful comments....'Man Crazy' is...all heat and no light. Oates has taken us to hell and back without providing the insight or sustenance to make it a trip worth taking."
Salon - Elizabeth Judd (08/15/1997)

"[A]lthough it starts off credibly enough, it quickly devolves into a sensationalistic potboiler with a grotesquely bloody climax that mixes the goriest elements of the Charles Manson killings and the Waco showdown."
New York Times - Michiko Kakutani (08/29/1997)

"There is no gainsaying the effectiveness of Oates's writing. The horrors visited on Ingrid's body and mine by Enoch Skaggs and his crew are illuminated in graphic detail. Ingrid...is unable to distinguish desire from dread; it is likely that the reader, for much of the book's second half, will be similarly unable to distinguish revulsion from fascination. What makes this part of the novel seem ultimately gratuitous is not its relentless violence, but rather the absence of a persuasive narrative context."
New York Times Book Review - A. O. Scott (09/21/1997)

"There's a voyeuristic cruelty in Oates' graphic and sensuous description of Ingrid's degradation that goes beyond realism....[S]he's shoving our faces into filth and gore....It seems to me that Oates has sacrificed her characters to a horror-story plot, complete with last-minute escapes and an implausible turn of events. The frantic plotting doesn't compensate for the shallowness of her characters. There's no unpredictability to their inner lives; given their social and psychological background, we know who they are and what kinds of things they'll do. Oates hasn't fully imagined them, merely worked them up, in a fluid but impersonally competent prose.
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Brigitte Frase (09/28/1997)

"Her boldly drawn grotesques reach out to us, making us believe in them and care about their fates."
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"The language washes over us and lulls us even as the action shocks us, and the interplay between the two--the most effective aspect of the book--seems to interest Oates more than the complications of narrative....If you open your eyes and look around while you're reading 'Man Crazy,' you may have the sense that you aren't going anywhere. But if you shut your eyes and give yourself up to it, the novel will take you on a dark and wild ride."
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Man Crazy: A Novel

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0452277248
Title : Man Crazy: A Novel
EAN : 9780452277243
Authors : Joyce Carol Oates
Binding : Paperback
Publisher : Plume
Publication Date : 1998-06-01
Pages : 288
List Price (MSRP) : 16.00
Height : 0.8100 inches
Width : 5.4000 inches
Length : 8.0900 inches
Weight : 0.5500 pounds
Keywords : Contemporary, Literary, Oates, Joyce Carol, Paperback, Printed Books, General AAS
Condition : Good

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