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Black Water
 

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# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1992-00-00 Dutton  

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Blurb: 
Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, 1993 The Senator. The girl. The Fourth of July party on the island. The ride through the night. The accident. The death by water. 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. The point of view is that of the girl herself, Kelly Kelleher. We enter her past and her present, her mind and her body, in a brilliantly woven narrative that transforms and transfigures this young woman fatally attracted to this older man, this hero, this father figure, this soon-to-be lover. Kelly becomes the very embodiment of a woman"s longing and vulnerability