- Cults, Ex-cultists, Abandoned children, Fiction
At five, Ingrid Boone loved her father with all the innocence and blind trust of childhood, believing him when he told her they would fly away in his favorite plane someday. But Ingrid's young life is shattered when this affectionate, violent man who learned to kill in Vietnam abandons her and her beautiful young mother in the wake of a violent crime.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and overwhelming.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Joyce Carol Oates
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 282
- Publisher
- Virago Press Ltd, William Abrahams, Plume
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9782253933359
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