Author:
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Imprint:New York. N.Y., U.S.A. : Dutton, c1996.
Description:viii, 454 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:"A William Abrahams book."
Note:A family of six disintegrates after a daughter is raped by a high-school student. It happens to the wealthy Mulvaneys in upstate New York. The disgrace--there is some question if it was rape--sends the father to drink and financial ruin, the girl leaves home, the others follow. By the author of What I Lived For.
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