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Author Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- author. Title My life as a rat : a novel / Joyce Carol Oates. Publisher New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] ©2019. Copies
ITEM LOC CALL # STATUS Ashland adult fiction OATES AVAILABLE Boulder Junction adult fiction FIC OAT AVAILABLE Cable adult fiction FIC OAT (HS) AVAILABLE Hayward adult and young adult fiction OAT AVAILABLE Iron River adult fiction F OAT AVAILABLE Manitowish Waters adult fiction F Oat AVAILABLE Phelps adult fiction Fic Oates, Joyce Carol AVAILABLE Sayner adult fiction OATES AVAILABLE Superior adult fiction FICTION Oates, Joyce C. AVAILABLE Washburn adult fiction FIC OAT AVAILABLE Edition First edition. Descript 402 pages ; 24 cm. Summary "Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one's family ever justified? Can one do the right thing, but bitterly regret it? ... My Life as a Rat follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an African-American boy by her older brothers. In a succession of vividly recalled episodes Violet contemplates the circumstances of her life as the initially beloved youngest child of seven Kerrigan children who inadvertently "informs" on her brothers, setting into motion their arrests and convictions and her own long estrangement."--Publisher description. Subject Betrayal -- Fiction. Life change events -- Fiction. Reflection (Philosophy) -- Fiction. Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction. Families -- Fiction. Murder -- Fiction. Self-realization in women -- Fiction. Genre Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. ISBN/ISSN 006289983X (hardcover) 9780062899835 (hardcover)
