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We Were the Mulvaneys

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Book - 1997 Fiction / Oates, Joyce, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Oates, Joyce Carol 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.3 out of 5

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"First Plume printing, September 1997"--Title page verso.
Originally published as hbk.: New York : Dutton, 1996.
Family pictures -- "The Huntsman" -- "The Pilgrim" -- Hard reckoning.
A family of six disintegrates after a daughter is raped by a high-school student. It happens to the wealthy Mulvaneys in upstate New York. The disgrace--there is some question if it was rape--sends the father to drink and financial ruin, the girl leaves home, the others follow. By the author of What I Lived For.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Plume, 1997.
Year Published: 1997
Description: 454 pages ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780452282827

SUBJECTS
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Rape victims -- Fiction.
Farm life -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
New York (State) -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.