We Were the Mulvaneys
by Joyce Carol Oates
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0452282829
- ISBN 13
- 9780452282827
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About This Item
The Mulvaneys of High Point Farm in Mt. Ephraim, New York, are a large and fortunate clan, blessed with good looks, abundant charisma, and boundless promise. But over the twenty-five year span of this ambitious novel, the Mulvaneys will slide, almost imperceptibly at first, from the pinnacle of happiness, transformed by the vagaries of fate into a scattered collection of lost and lonely souls.
It is the youngest son, Judd, now an adult, who attempts to piece together the fragments of the Mulvaneys former glory, seeking to uncover and understand the secret violation that occasioned the familys tragic downfall. Each of the Mulvaneys endures some form of exilephysical or spiritualbut in the end they find a way to bridge the chasms that have opened up among them, reuniting in the spirit of love and healing.
Profoundly cathartic, Oates acclaimed novel unfolds as if, in the darkness of the human spirit, she has come upon a source of light at its core. Rarely has a writer made such a startling and inspiring statement about the value of hope and compassion.
Synopsis
We Were the Mulvaneys is a novel written by Joyce Carol Oates and was published in 1996. We Were the Mulvaneys was featured in Oprah's Book Club in 2001. The Mulvaneys, a family living in the small, rural town of Mt. Ephraim, New York, during the later part of the 20th century, are the perfect family: four kids, the owners of a successful roofing business, and a high social status.
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- Bookseller
- The Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SQ4786869
- Title
- We Were the Mulvaneys
- Author
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0452282829
- ISBN 13
- 9780452282827
- Publisher
- Plume
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- September 1996
- Keywords
- family, new york, farming
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- Fiction;
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