Black water
Standort:- FS.E : Fremdsprachige Schriften : Einzelne Sprachen : Englische Schriften
- DR : Belletristik : Romane, Erzählungen und Novellen
Verfasser:
Oates, Joyce Carol
Verfasser Angabe:
Joyce Carol Oates
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
Penguin Books
Erscheinungsort:
England
Jahr:
1993
Umfang:
154 S.
ISBN:
978-0-452-26986-6
Inhalt:
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 bright 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 car ride that we hope against hope will not end as we know it must end. One of the acknowledged 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.