We Were the Mulvaneys Summary
Joyce Carol Oates

One of the United States's most prolific and versatile contemporary writers, Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938) focuses upon the spiritual, sexual, and intellectual decline of modern American society.Oates... Read more

Joyce Carol Oates was born in the small town of Lockport, New York, on 16 June 1938 and grew up in a rural setting nearby in Erie County. Together with her brother, Frederic, and sister, Lynn Ann, sh... Read more

In 1990 Joyce Carol Oates won both the Elmer Holmes Bobst Lifetime Achievement Award in Fiction and the Rea Award for the Short Story, a twenty-five-thousand-dollar prize that honors living American... Read more

The Mulvaneys were a family of six that the town knew of and most adored. Each member went about their days like a normal family, kids go off to school, dad works, and the mother stays home, but a tra... Read more

The novel "We Were the Mulvaneys" by Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of what happened to a family prior to and following the rape of Marianne, the daughter, by a school acquaintance, Zachary Lu... Read more