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by Joyce Carol Oates
About 86 pages (25,737 words)
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We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates is a novel about the tenuous grasp on happiness that one American family has. The four hundred page novel is about a young girl who is raped by a high school acquaintance in a very small town and the fallout that affected the lives of everyone in her immediate family. It is a snapshot of the darker side of family life in the modern world. (read more)
      Family Pictures: Storybook House
      Family Pictures: The Doe
      Family Pictures: St. Valentine's 1976
      Family Pictures: Ringing the Cowbell
      Family Pictures: Family Code
      Family Pictures: Dirty Girl
      Family Pictures: Providence
      Family Pictures: Strawberries and Cream
      Family Pictures: Secrets
      Family Pictures: The Revelation
      Family Pictures: Babies
      Family Pictures: Damaged Girl
      Family Pictures: The Lovers
      Family Pictures: Imminent Mortality
      Family Pictures: Every Heartbeat
      Family Pictures: The Assault
      Family Pictures: The Penitent
      Family Pictures: Ask Dad
      Family Pictures: Boys Will Be Boys
      Family Pictures: Phase
      Family Pictures: Gone
      The Huntsman: One by One
      The Huntsman: Valedictorian Speech
      The Huntsman: Snow After Easter
      The Huntsman: The Huntsman
      The Huntsman: Plastica
      The Huntsman: Dignity
      The Huntsman: Reverse Prayer
      The Huntsman: The Accomplice
      The Huntsman: Brothers
      The Huntsman: Crossing Over
      The Huntsman: The Handshake
      The Huntsman: The Bog
      The Pilgrim: Tears
      The Pilgrim: Green Isle
      The Pilgrim: The Pilgrim
      The Pilgrim: The Proposal
      The Pilgrim: Rag-Quilt Life
      Hard Reckoning: Hard Reckoning
      Hard Reckoning: On My Own
      Hard Reckoning: The White Horse
      Hard Reckoning: Stump Creek Hill
      Hard Reckoning: Intensive Care
      Hard Reckoning: Gone
      Reunion: Fourth of July 1993

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