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My life as a rat : a novel
- Title
- My life as a rat : a novel / Joyce Carol Oates.
- Author
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
- Publication
- New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019]
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Use in library | JFE 20-414 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 402 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one's family ever justified? Can one do the right thing, but bitterly regret it? My Life as a Rat 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" -- ‡c Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Families
- Reflection (Philosophy)
- FICTION / Family Life / General
- Domestic fiction
- Novels
- Psychological fiction
- FICTION / Literary
- Betrayal > Fiction
- FICTION / Psychological
- Fiction
- Families > Fiction
- Life change events > Fiction
- Reflection (Philosophy) > Fiction
- Self-realization in women > Fiction
- Alienation (Social psychology) > Fiction
- Murder > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Novels.
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-414
- ISBN
- 9780062899835
- 006289983X
- LCCN
- 2019396679
- OCLC
- 1051079604
- Author
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- author.
- Title
- My life as a rat : a novel / Joyce Carol Oates.
- Publisher
- New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Performer
- Narrated by Sadie Alexandru.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-414