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Black Water
Reader Score
70%
70% of readers
recommend this book
Joyce Carol Oates has taken a shocking story that has become an American myth and, from it, has created a novel of electrifying power and illumination. Kelly Kelleher is an idealistic, twenty-six-year-old "good girl" when she meets the Senator at a Fourth of July party. In a brilliantly woven narrative, we enter her past and her present, her mind and her body as she is fatally attracted to this older man, this hero, this soon-to-be-lover. Kelly becomes the very embodiment of the vulnerable, romantic dreams of bight and brave women, drawn to the power that certain men command - at a party that takes on the quality of a surreal nightmare; in a tragic care ride that we hope against hope will not end as we know it must end. One of the acknowleged masters of American fiction, Joyce Carol Oates has written a bold tour de force that parts the black water to reveal the profoundest depths of human truth.
Book Details
- Publisher: Plume Books
- Publish Date: May 1st, 1993
- Pages: 160
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.98in - 5.38in - 0.45in - 0.31lb
- EAN: 9780452269866
- Recommended age: 18-UP
- Categories: • Literary• Psychological• Classics
About the Author
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 Best Horror Novel, awarded by the Horror Writers' Association. In 1994, Oates received the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award in Horror Fiction. She is the editor of American Gothic Tales.
Praise for this book
Praise for Black Water "A powerfully imagined novel...it continues to haunt us."--The New York Times Book Review "Intense...signals another frontier opened with the sword of a master storyteller."--Chicago Tribune "Its power of evocation is remarkable."--The New Yorker