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First publish date: 1998
Authors: Joyce Carol Oates
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📘 We were the Mulvaneys
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A close‑knit family and their surrounding community unravel when a traumatic act of sexual violence disrupts their unity.

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📘 Blonde
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Joyce Carol Oates gives a biographical fiction portrait of Marilyn Monroe, tracing her life from birth to death against the backdrop of Hollywood's glittering yet tragic world.

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📘 The Falls
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In Upstate New York, a family’s tangled history intertwines with the environmental disaster of Love Canal as nuclear waste threatens the working poor and dark secrets surface.

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Joanne V. Creighton’s critical study examines Joyce Carol Oates’s middle period, focused on the fifteen novels published between 1977 and 1990, including Oates’s pseudonymous mystery works as Rosamond Smith.

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📘 The Accursed
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In 20th‑century Princeton, New Jersey, a powerful curse snuffs out a wealthy family’s brightest hope when a bride disappears, and her brother’s quest leads him into the city’s darkest underbelly and its most outspoken figures.

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📘 Joyce Carol Oates's short stories
 by Katherine Bastian


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📘 The Gravedigger's Daughter
 by Joyce Carol Oates

A Jewish immigrant family struggles in 1930s upstate New York; after tragedy, daughter Rebecca embarks on an odyssey of self‑invention that culminates in a bittersweet, distinctly American triumph.

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📘 Because it is bitter, and because it is my heart
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Set in 1950s New York, Oates’ novel follows Iris Courtney and black basketball player Jinx Fairchild, whose forbidden attraction culminates in a violent act that reshapes their lives and tests race relations in an industrial town.

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📘 High crime area
 by Joyce Carol Oates

A startling anthology of dark suspense stories by Joyce Carol Oates that explore obsession, terror, and the psychological shadows haunting academics, artists, and travelers alike.

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