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I Lock My Door Upon Myself
 

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Historical

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1 1990-00-00 Ecco Press  

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People lived differently then, did things for life, they made gestures that lasted for life... Whose story is I Lock My Door Upon Myself? The fiction chronicles the life of Edith Margaret Freilicht, born 1890 and called "Calla" by her mother who died birthing her. Elusive, willful, eccentric, Calla is an enigma to the town of Shaheen, Eden County, New York, to her family, her husband, her children; a flame-haired beauty who views her surroundings and circumstances as a sleepwalker moving through a dream landscape. A woman whose life comes to be defined by her association with a black itinerant water diviner, Tyrell Thompson. The fiction is told by Calla"s granddaughter, in part to reach an understanding, a recognition: Because we are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language. One of the magical things about Joyce Carol Oates"s talent is her enduring ability to reinvent not only the psychological space she inhabits when writing, but herself as well, as part of her own fiction. She is one of the most talented and versatile writers of our time.
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