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The novel chronicles the Mulvaneys, a seemingly perfect family living in the small, rural town of Mt. Ephraim, New York, during the latter part of the 20th century. The Mulvaneys own a successful roofing business, and are obsessed with social status.
1 de set. de 1996 · We Were the Mulvaneys is a book that moves over the unwinding and dissolution of a family like a discriminating hand over braille. Joyce Carol Oates introduces a 6 member family at their peak. Maybe even she introduces them past their zenith and onto the shallow downwind slope of the bell curve.
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24 de jan. de 2001 · A powerful and heartbreaking story of a family torn apart by a rape and its aftermath. The novel explores the themes of free will, evolution, gender, class, spirituality, and the American dream through the eyes of the Mulvaneys and their friends.
Explore the plot, characters, themes, and literary devices of Joyce Carol Oates' novel "We Were the Mulvaneys". Learn how the book depicts the impact of a tragic event on a family's life and identity.
Introduction. Although Joyce Carol Oates has been a fixture of American literature since her debut novel in 1964, her twenty-sixth novel We Were the Mulvaneys, published in 1996, was the first one to reach the top of the New York Times bestsellers list.
24 de jan. de 2001 · A New York Times Notable Book. The Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet. But something happens on Valentine’s Day, 1976—an incident that is hushed up in the town and never spoken of in the Mulvaney home—that rends the fabric of their family life...with tragic consequences.
- Joyce Carol Oates
We Were the Mulvaneys is at once a rich textured novel of family life and love (including the abiding love of animals) and a profound discourse on themes of free will, evolution, gender, class, spirituality, forgiveness, and the nature and purpose of guilt.
