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PS3565.A8 W4 1996. We Were the Mulvaneys is a novel written by Joyce Carol Oates, and was published in 1996. We Were the Mulvaneys was featured in Oprah's Book Club in January 2001. The novel chronicles the Mulvaneys, a seemingly perfect family living in the small, rural town of Mt. Ephraim, New York, during the latter part of the 20th century.
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- Joyce Carol Oates
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Sep 1, 1996 · Kindle $13.99. The Mulvaneys of High Point Farm in Mt. Ephraim, New York, are a large and fortunate clan, blessed with good looks, abundant charisma, and boundless promise. But over the twenty-five year span of this ambitious novel, the Mulvaneys will slide, almost imperceptibly at first, from the pinnacle of happiness, transformed by the ...
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Sep 1, 1997 · Joyce Carol Oates is the author of more than 70 books, including novels, short story collections, poetry volumes, plays, essays, and criticism, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde. Among her many honors are the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and the National Book Award.
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Jan 24, 2001 · In addition to many prize-winning and bestselling novels, including We Were the Mulvaneys, A Book of American Martyrs, Black Water, Because It Is Bitter and Because It Is My Heart, and Broke Heart Blues, Joyce Carol Oates is the author of a number of works of gothic fiction including Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque, a World Fantasy Award nominee; and Zombie, winner of the Bram Stoker Award for ...
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Jan 24, 2001 · A masterpiece of American fiction, We Were the Mulvaneys depicts the dissolution of a family after a rape in 1976 and the impact of secrets, love, and evil on each member. The novel explores themes of free will, evolution, gender, class, spirituality, and the American dream through the lives of the Mulvaneys and their friends and enemies.
Dreiser would have understood and approved the passion and power of We Were the Mulvaneys. This wrenching saga, set in the fictional upstate New York town of Mount Ephraim, is one of the protean Oates's most skillful dramatizations of family unhappiness: A big, involving novel on a par with such successes as Them (1969), Bellefleur (1980), and ...
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Michael and Corinne are married with four kids, named Michael II, Patrick, Marianne, and Judd. Mr. Mulvaney works as a successful entrepreneur. He owns a roofing company. Corinne, his wife, is a brilliant optimist and a good homemaker. One unfortunate night, young Marianne goes to a Valentine's dance. After the dance, she goes to a party and ...
