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<p><P>The Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet&#151;a hardworking father, a loving mother, three fine sons, and a bright, pretty daughter. They are confident in their love for each other and their position in the rural community of Mt. Ephraim, New York. But something happens on Valentine's Day, 1976&#151;an incident that is hushed up in the town and never spoken of in the Mulvaney home&#151;that rends the fabric of their family life.<P>As the years pass the secrets they keep from each other threaten to destroy them, but ultimately they bridge the chasms between them, and reunite in the spirit of love and healing. Rarely has such an acclaimed writer made such a startling and inspiring statement about the value of hope and compassion.<p></p><h3>Salon - David Futrelle</h3><p><P>in her gracefully sprawling new novel, Joyce Carol Oates delivers a modern family tragedy with a theme as painfully primal as <i>Oedipus Rex</i>. Over the course of 400-plus pages, we watch, in a kind of slow-motion horror, as life at the Mulvaneys' High Point Farm in upstate New York is wrenched apart by an act of careless brutality inflicted by an outsider upon the family's only daughter. The r

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Author

Joyce Carol Oates

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780452282827

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.7 / 5 (2,421 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14