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The author draws the reader into the secret life of Kathleen Hennessy, a nurse's aide who, as both martyr and avenging angel, is a memorable portrait of one of the 'insulted and injured' of American society. Set in the underside of working-class Detroit of the '60s and '70s, this short, lyric novel sketches Kathleen's violent childhood-shattered by a broken home, child-beating, and murder-and follows her into her early adult years as a hospital health-care worker. Overworked, underpaid, and quietly overzealous, Kathleen falls in love with a young doctor, whose exploitation of her sets the course of the remainder of her life, in which her passivity masks a deep fury and secret resolve to take revenge.
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- Title The Rise of Life on Earth
- Author Joyce Carol Oates
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 2nd Printing
- Pages 142
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation, NY
- Date 1992-09-17
- ISBN 9780811212137 / 0811212130
- Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.29 x 0.37 in (20.32 x 13.44 x 0.94 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Revenge - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92015118
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Publishers Weekly, 07/20/1992, Page 0
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