Description
Joyce Carol Oates has taken a shocking story that has become an American myth and, from it, has created a novel of electrifying power and illumination. Kelly Kelleher is an idealistic, twenty-six-year-old "good girl" when she meets the Senator at a Fourth of July party. In a brilliantly woven narrative, we enter her past and her present, her mind and her body as she is fatally attracted to this older man, this hero, this soon-to-be-lover. Kelly becomes the very embodiment of the vulnerable, romantic dreams of bright and brave women, drawn to the power that certain men command - at a party that takes on the quality of a surreal nightmare; in a tragic car ride that we hope against hope will not end as we know it must end.
Info
ISBN: 9780452269866
Published Date: May 1, 1993
Publisher: Plume Books
Language: English
Series: Plume Contemporary Fiction
Page Count: 154
Size: 7.96" l x 5.28" w x 0.45" h
Category
Fiction
Subject
Contemporary