- Death, Brothers and sisters, Literature, Girls
New York Times bestselling author of The Falls, Blonde, and We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates returns with a dark, wry, satirical tale—inspired by an unsolved American true-crime mystery."Dysfunctional families are all alike.
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- Author
- Joyce Carol Oates
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 562
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Canada, Limited, Ecco, Ren min wen xue chu ban she
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780007285099
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