My Sister, My Love: the Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike
Author(s): Joyce Carol Oates
A dark, wry, captivating tale, inspired by an unsolved American true crime mystery. My Sister, My Love is based on the controversial true-crime mystery of the JonBenet Ramsey murder. When a beautiful, ice-skating child prodigy is found brutally murdered, suspicion immediately mounts against friends, neighbors, and even the young girl's own family. Told from the point of view of the dead girl's brother, and in the inimitable style and gripping voice that has long been Oates's trademark, My Sister, My Love explores the darkest corners of the human psyche, and takes the reader into a twisted world that only the most daring and imaginative of novelists can capture. First published 2008.
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'A searing and often extremely funny portrait of suburban upper--middle--class life!Oates' ability to mimic the chaotic thoughts and feelings of an unwanted child is uncanny.' Sunday Times 'A lavish, cynical portrait of family dysfunction in the money--and-celebrity--crazed 1990s.' Guardian
Joyce Carol Oates is a novelist, critic, playwright, poet and author of short stories and is one of America's most highly respected literary figures. She currently holds the post of Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. Her most recent novel, 'The Gravedigger's Daughter', was published in 2007.
General Fields
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- : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- : Fourth Estate Ltd
- : 0.726
- : 31 August 2008
- : 234mm X 153mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Joyce Carol Oates
- : Paperback
- : 11-Aug
- : English
- : 813.54
- : very good
- : 576
- : Crime & mystery