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The Sacrifice is a 2015 novel by the American writer Joyce Carol Oates. Set in blighted urban New Jersey in the 1980s, it follows a young Black woman, Sybilla, who is discovered in a degraded condition in an abandoned factory after going missing.
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Jan 1, 2015 · 3.42. 2,023 ratings310 reviews. New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates returns with an incendiary novel that illuminates the tragic impact of sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power on innocent lives and probes the persistence of stereotypes, the nature of revenge, the complexities of truth, and our insatiable hunger for ...
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Jan 27, 2015 · Hardcover – January 27, 2015. by Joyce Carol Oates (Author) 3.9 357 ratings. See all formats and editions. New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates returns with an incendiary novel that illuminates the tragic impact of sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power on innocent lives and probes the persistence of stereotypes, the ...
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Jan 30, 2015 · Joyce Carol Oates’s new novel, “The Sacrifice,” is a fictional retelling of the Brawley story, set in the invented Red Rock neighborhood of Pascayne, N.J., and based so heavily on the...
Jan 27, 2015 · New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates returns with a novel that illuminates the tragic impact of sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power on innocent lives When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanizes her community, exacerbating the racial tension ...
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Jan 27, 2015 · In this magisterial work of fiction, Joyce Carol Oates explores the uneasy fault lines in a racially troubled society. In such a tense, charged atmosphere, Oates reveals that there must always be a sacrifice--of innocence, truth, trust, and, ultimately, of lives.
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