Book Cover We Were the Mulvaneys

We Were the Mulvaneys

of Joyce Carol Oates

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The Mulvaneys of High Point Farm in Mt. Ephraim, New York, are a large and fortunate clan, blessed with good looks, abundant charisma, and boundless promise. But over the twenty-five year span of this ambitious novel, the Mulvaneys will slide, almost imperceptibly at first, from the pinnacle of happiness, transformed by the vagaries of fate into a scattered collection of lost and lonely souls.It is the youngest son, Judd, now an adult, who attempts to piece together the fragments of the Mulvaneys' former glory, seeking to uncover and understand the secret violation that occasioned the family's tragic downfall. Each of the Mulvaneys endures some form of exile- physical or spiritual - but in the end they find a way to bridge the chasms that have opened up among them, reuniting in the spirit of love and healing.

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Book Details

  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 454 pages
  • Publisher Plume
  • Publication Date September 1st 1997
  • First Publication 09/28/96
  • Language English
  • ISBN 9780452282827
  • Edition Oprah's Book Club edition
  • Category Fiction
  • Scenario ['Chautauqua (United States)', 'New York State (United States)']

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