Name: Because it is Bitter, and Because it is my Heart (Plume)
SKU: 1552875
Price: 29.36 EUR
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Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
ISBN: 9780452265813

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Because it is Bitter, and Because it is my Heart (Plume)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Joyce Carol Oates

Publisher

Plume Books

Year

1991

Language

English

Pages

416

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3x13.6x2.4 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN

0452265819

ISBN13

9780452265813

Synopsis "Because it is Bitter, and Because it is my Heart (Plume) "

Joyce Carol Oates adds to her extraordinary body of work with this stunning National Book Award Finalist filled with violence, love, racism, and a shared secret in mid-century New York. In the early 1950s in an industrial town, racial boundaries may keep people apart--or bring them together explosively. Iris Courtney, who is white, is the only witness when handsome Jinx Fairchild, a black basketball player, kills a white man in order to protect her. The secret link between Iris and Jinx is not only their attraction to each other, but a bond of passion and guilt that has formed between them. This one irrevocable, tragic act shapes their lives and alters their destinies in Joyce Carol Oates's finest, emotion-packed novel--a work critics call a masterpiece, the best work of America's best writer of contemporary realism.

Joyce Carol Oates

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Born in Lockport, New York, in 1938, this author has established herself as one of the most influential voices in contemporary literature in the United States. With a prolific career spanning over fifty novels, hundreds of short stories, a dozen essays, eleven volumes of poetry, and several plays, her work is a testament to the ingenuity and depth with which she has explored the human condition

Throughout her career, she has received prestigious awards such as the National Book Award, the PEN/Malamud Award, and the Prix Fémina Étranger. In Spain, her distinctive dark humor has been recognized with the BBK Ja! Bilbao Award and the Pepe Carvalho Award 2021. Additionally, in 2010 she was honored with the National Humanities Medal, the highest civilian honor in the humanities in the U.S., and in 2012, Oregon State University awarded her the Stone Award in recognition of her literary legacy

Her style, always unsettling and visionary, has challenged conventions and offered new perspectives on society, identity, and morality, making her an essential reference in the international literary scene.

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María Isabel Frattoni Monday, January 29, 2018
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el libro está en buenas condiciones, el precio no es bajo, tampoco absurdamente alto, estoy conforme con la compra
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