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Rape
A Love Story
by Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN: 0786714824
ISBN-13: 9780786714827
Format: Paperback
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Summary
Teena Maguire is raped and beaten, an event witnessed by her teenaged daughter. The crime and its aftermath form the basis of this short novel, whose characters include Teena's lover, the policeman who is attracted to her, Teena's lawyers, and the attackers themselves and their families.
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"[T]he sense of doom inexorably working itself out is simultaneously distasteful, logical, and dramatically just....We've been here before....But Oates has achieved memorable successes in the short-novel form, and, on balance, this is one of them."
-- Kirkus
"...RAPE: A LOVE STORY gives us Oates at her darkly enthralling best." -- Andrew Ervin
-- New York Times Book Review
"This is an important book despite its frustrating brevity and its sometimes too simplistic characterization. All men should read it." -- Lewis DeSoto
-- Literary Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Da Capo Pr
Published date: 2004
Size: 5 x 7.5 inches
Weight: 0.35 pounds
Pages: 154
Publisher's Notes
The victim of a Fourth of July gang rape, single mother Teena Maguire and her daughter become the target of harassment and violence on the part of the assailants after Teena identifies the perpetrators for the Niagara Falls Police Department. Reprint.
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