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My heart laid bare

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My heart laid bare

by Joyce Carol Oates

About this title: Joyce Carol Oates's novel is a panoramic saga beginning in the 17th century and coming to its dramatic conclusion in the late 1990s. Oates details the fortunes and sorrows of the Licht family of New York State, and the ways in which the fruits of a crime can continue to blossom even after the passage of centuries. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.

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Edition: First edition. Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Dutton Books Date Published: 1998 ISBN-13: 9780525944423 ISBN: 0525944427

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Edition: Stated "First Printing: June, 1998" with full number line Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Dutton Books Date Published: 1998 ISBN-13: 9780525944423 ISBN: 0525944427

Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. First edition. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 420 p. William Abrahams Book. Black linen-look spine with gilt lettering and gold boards and gold endpapers; lower spine and corners are bumped, pages have a faint wave to them, and there is a trace of a small spot (coffee? ) on the edge of the first six pages, but otherwise this book is unmarked; the jacket shows some edgeweaar and chipping and a bit of scuffing on the back, but it is ... read more

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Edition: First Thus Binding: Softcover Publisher: Plume, New York Date Published: 1999 ISBN-13: 9780452280069 ISBN: 0452280060

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goodreads rating 2 out of 5 2 out of 5
Oct 21, 2009
By Mtngoddess, Manitou Springs, CO

"i just don't like oates. this was her third chance and even though i liked this better than the others i read i just can't get into her writing style.
if anyone has a suggestion as to the BEST oates i would love to hear it. i REALLY REALLY REALLY wanted to like her because she has so much material out there that i figured she could keep me good and busy. but no such luck...."

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By Peter, Toronto, Canada

"A very nice twist on the con artist tale. A family of con artists turn out well despite the best effort of the father, who is a master con."

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May 28, 2009
By Catherine, North Aurora, IL

"A proper read for a socially sophisticated individual."

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Jan 22, 2009
By Amber, Ocala, FL

"am loving this book. looks like it will become one of my favorite joyce carol oates books to date (not that i've read even a fraction of them)."

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Kirkus, 05/01/1998
"[O]ne of her most inventive and entertaining yet....That the result is so irresistibly comic is so much frosting on a sumptuous cake..."

New York Times, 06/16/1998
"[A]n old-fashioned family saga, dressed up with the usual Gothic curlicues, the usual heavy-breathing prose and some added "Ragtime"-esque pretensions....[E]very character in 'My Heart Laid Bare' comes across as a stereotype or cliche: Abraham as a maniacal patriarch, his son Harwood as a violent bully, his daughter Millie as a manipulative flirt, and so on and so on and so on.... [T]he trajectory of her characters' lives feels less like the inevitable working out of familial and societal imperatives than the poorly thought-out manipulations of an author bored by her own pallid creations." -- Michiko Kakutani

Salon, 06/26/1998
"In 'My Heart Laid Bare,' Joyce Carol Oates' writing style cries out for parody. Oates has an unchecked passion for italics, repetition of sounds and phrases, capriciously placed quotation marks and bizarre, parenthetical asides....[But] by the end of the novel, Oates' overheated prose seems oddly fitting for a dark comedy about our national preoccupation with self-invention." -- Elizabeth Judd

 

 

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