Joyce Carol Oates is the author of Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience. Her work often explores the American experience.
We Were the Mulvaneys
We Were the Mulvaneys
Synopsis
The Mulvaneys are a seemingly perfect family of four children living on a farm and running a roofing business in the small town of Mt. Ephraim, New York — until one night after prom changes everything. When Michael's eldest daughter Marianne is raped by a local boy from an influential family, her father refuses to believe it was assault and she disowns her; over the next fifteen years his alcoholism and bitterness destroy what remains of their life together. Told through alternating first-person accounts from each sibling as they grow up in the aftermath, the novel traces how one act of violence ripples outward, fracturing a family's love and forcing each child to confront loss, resentment, and the slow work of forgiveness.
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Marianne MulvaneyProtagonist
Michael Mulvaney Sr.Supporting
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Edition
We Were the MulvaneysPaperback, 2001
464 pages
Penguin BooksLanguage: EnglishISBN: 97804522828275 editions available
