We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates (2001) NEW


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Author:	Joyce Carol Oates	Publisher:	Plume
ISBN-10:	0452282829	Subject:	Literary Criticism
ISBN-13:	9780452282827	Topic:	--
Format:	Paperback	Language:	English
Publication Year:	2001	Condition:	Brand New
Special Attributes:	1st Edition

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In upstate New York, the Mulvaneys are a wealthy and magnetic family--attractive, charismatic, promising. But after 25 years, the family begins to slide, then fragment, then shatter, and soon there is nothing left of the dynasty. Judd, the youngest of the clan, begins to search for the reasons behind the downfall, and as he uncovers family secrets, he begins to bring the Mulvaneys slowly back together in a spirit of healing and compassion.
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Length:	454 pages
Height:	9.0 in.
Width:	6.0 in.
Thickness:	1.2 in.
Weight:	16.8 oz.

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The Mulvaneys, at first a close and very lucky family, drift apart over the years, until the youngest son, Judd, discovers the secret of their downfall and sets out to help reunite the family.
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"...[B]uilds on its biblical infrastructure (with a few nuts and bolts from Richardson's 'Clarissa') a world so richly observed and engagingly peopled that we're willing to sit still for yet another story of fall and redemption....Occasionally Ms. Oates's prose sounds canned and careless...but she gives us enough small luminous moments to carry several novels....'We Were the Mulvaneys' works not simply because of its meticulous details and gestures, or because 'family' is a hot-button issue these days, or because Ms. Oates has borrowed the primal narrative of Western culture to give her story subliminal oomph. Mere hard work and canny calculation could get a writer that far. What keeps us coming back to Oates Country is something stronger and spookier: her uncanny gift of making the page a window, with something happening on the other side that we'd swear was life itself." New York Times Book Review - David Gates (09/15/1996) "...[I]t is hard to avoid the simple fact that, like anything we have in too great a number--late summer squash, back issues of the 'New Yorker'--Oates's books are easy to undervalue. It would be a mistake, however, to underestimate 'We Were the Mulvaneys'....Oates unspools this expansive story, and captures this memorable clan, with a huge amount of exacting yet unfussy energy. the busy spill of her sentences is a perfect match for the tumble of big-family life....[I]t will consume you." Washington Post Book World - Dwight Garner (09/22/1996) "Joyce Carol Oates is just a fearless writer. Where others tremble and falter, she plunges right in and does not look up or come to shore until the fullest telling of the tale, the most thorough examination of the direst possibilities, the most exacting testing of ordinary assumptions and theories, have been played out. 'We were the Mulvaneys' is yet new testimony to her great intelligence, certainly, but, more important, to her brave heart and her impossibly lush and dead-on imaginative powers." Los Angeles Times Book Review - Beverly Lowry (09/15/1996) "Just when you think Oates has finally run dry, or is mired in mechanical self-repetition, she stuns you with another example of her essential kinship with the classic American realistic novelists. Dreiser would have understood and approved the passion and power of 'We Were the Mulvaneys'." Kirkus Reviews (07/15/1996)

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You are bidding on this same VERY THICK LARGE TRADE SIZE PAPERBACK shown in the photo. AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB BOOK.......NEW, TIGHT, CLEAN CONDITION.

WE WERE THE MULVANEYS by JOYCE CAROL OATES.

"Oate's finest........a book about the ways of the heart and the compelling ties of love.......a major achievement." - CHICAGO TRIBUNE.

FIRST PLUME PRINTING: SEPTEMBER 1997.

The Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet - a hardworking father, a loving mother, three fine sons, and a bright, pretty daughter. They are confident in their love for each other and their position in the rural community of Mt. Ephraim , New York. But something happens on Valentine's Day, 1976 - an incident that is hushed up in the town and never spoken of in the Mulvaney home - that rends the fabric of their family life.....with tragic consequences.

It is the youngest son, Judd, now an adult, who attempts to reclaim the family's past by documenting their history and what seemed a special gift for happiness. The many secrets they kept from each other threatened to destroy them, but ultimately, WE WERE THE MULVANEYS celebrates the miracle that allowed a family to bridge the chasms that had opened up between them, and to reunite in the spirit of love and healing. Profoundly cathartic, this extraordinary novel unfolds as if Oates, in plumbing the darkness of the human spirit, has come upon a source of light at its core. Rarely has such an acclaimed writer made such a startling and inspiring statement about the value of hope and compassion.

"WILL BREAK YOUR HEART, HEAL IT, THEN BREAK IT AGAIN." - LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW.

"THE MULVANEYS GET UNDER OUR SKIN AND DEMAND THAT WE PAY ATTENTION." - NEW YORK NEWSDAY .

*A 1996 NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR.

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