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My life as a rat : a novel / Joyce Carol Oates.

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- (author.).

Summary:

"Follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an African-American boy by her older brothers. In a succession of vividly recalled episodes Violet contemplates the circumstances of her life as the initially beloved youngest child of seven Kerrigan children who inadvertently "informs" on her brothers, setting into motion their arrests and convictions and her own long estrangement."--Publisher description.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780062899835
  • ISBN: 006289983X
  • Physical Description: 402 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]

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Genre: Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 4 of 4 copies available at Sage Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Malheur County Public Libraries. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Ontario Community Library.

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Ontario Community Library OATES, Joyce Carol (Text) 33330004472876 Adult Fiction Available -

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