| You Must Remember This Contributor(s): Oates, Joyce Carol (Author) |
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ISBN: 0452280192 ISBN-13: 9780452280199 Publisher: Plume Books OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1998 Annotation: An epic novel of an American family in the 1950s proves the tender division between what is permissible and what is taboo, between ordinary life and the secret places of the heart. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Sagas - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 86024337 |
| Physical Information: 1.12" H x 5.96" W x 8.88" (1.07 lbs) 448 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950's - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - New York - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From Joyce Carol Oates, the bestselling author of We Were the Mulvaneys, comes an epic family novel about the division between the permissible and the forbidden, between ordinary life and the secret places of the heart. Set in an industrial, working-class town in upstate New York, You Must Remember This is the story of the Stevicks: two parents trapped in a frustrating marriage; their idealistic, ambitious son, and fifteen-year-old Enid Maria, who becomes caught up in a secret sexual relationship with her uncle Felix, a professional boxer twice her age. A true and empathetic tale that merges love and violence, it is also a brilliant re-creation of a decade that worshiped conformity, one that tells of lives that break every convention in the search for meaning and fulfillment. |