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Black Water
by Joyce Carol Oates
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A senator from Massachusetts, who goes unnamed throughout the novel, meets Kelly Kelleher, a young writer from Boston, at a July 4th party in Maine. They leave the party to go to dinner and a motel, but on the way the drunken senator takes the wrong road. When they finally reach the ferry, which is departing as they approach the dock, the senator speeds up the car but misses the ferry and hits the water. The senator crawls over Kelly to get out of the car. She is trapped inside. Oates places this tale in the present, using recent political figures like Dukakis, Bush, and Thurgood Marshall.
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9780452269866,
Paperback,
Penguin Group USA,
1993
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9780525934554,
Hardcover,
Penguin Group USA,
1992
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9781558006171,
Audio Cassette,
New Star Media Inc,
1992
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9780792714224,
Hardcover,
Chivers North Amer,
1993
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9780792714217,
Paperback,
Chivers North Amer,
1993
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Publisher Notes
Flattered by the attentions of a senator she has met at a Fourth of July beach party on Grayling Island, Kelly Kelleher accepts a ride from him, taking a first step toward her final confrontation with death.
First Line
The rented Toyota, driven with such impatient exuberance by The Senator, was speeding along the unpaved unnamed road, taking the turns in giddy skidding slides, and then, with no warning, somehow the car had gone off the road and had overturned in black rushing water, listing to its passenger's side, rapidly sinking.
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