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Black Water

by Joyce Carol Oates
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Black Water
Black Water

Evocative tale of trust, power, and consequence.

"Black Water" by Joyce Carol Oates strikes a deep chord as it delves into the anxious excitement of seeking life's fireworks and confronting unexpected dangers. If you're drawn to novels that encapsulate the human yearning for experience and the startling twist of events that challenge our perceptions of trust and power, this novel's haunting narrative will grip you undeniably. The story's tension is palpable, and it leaves you reflecting on the dark waters of human interaction and the choices we make.

  • Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (1993)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1992)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Black Water

by Joyce Carol Oates
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ISBN: 9780452269866
Authors: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Plume Book
Date of Publication: 1992-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Literature, Literary Criticism
Goodreads rating: 3.54
(rated by 9267 readers)

Description

The Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling novel We Were the Mulvaneys. 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 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 a 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.
 

Evocative tale of trust, power, and consequence.

"Black Water" by Joyce Carol Oates strikes a deep chord as it delves into the anxious excitement of seeking life's fireworks and confronting unexpected dangers. If you're drawn to novels that encapsulate the human yearning for experience and the startling twist of events that challenge our perceptions of trust and power, this novel's haunting narrative will grip you undeniably. The story's tension is palpable, and it leaves you reflecting on the dark waters of human interaction and the choices we make.

  • Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (1993)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1992)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.