- Joyce Carol Oates

My Sister My Love

By Joyce Carol Oates
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A dark, wry, captivating tale, inspired by an unsolved American true crime mystery.

My Sister, My Love is based on the controversial true-crime mystery of the JonBenet Ramsey murder. When a beautiful, ice-skating child prodigy is found brutally murdered, suspicion immediately mounts against friends, neighbors, and even the young girl’s own family. Told from the point of view of the dead girl’s brother, and in the inimitable style and gripping voice that has long been Oates’s trademark, My Sister, My Love explores the darkest corners of the human psyche, and takes the reader into a twisted world that only the most daring and imaginative of novelists can capture.

Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 01 Sep 2008
Pages: 576
ISBN: 978-0-00-728509-9
Joyce Carol Oates is a novelist, critic, playwright, poet and author of short stories and one of America’s most respected literary figures. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University and a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction.

‘A searing and often extremely funny portrait of suburban upper-middle-class life…Oates’ ability to mimic the chaotic thoughts and feelings of an unwanted child is uncanny.’ Sunday Times -

”'A lavish, cynical portrait of family dysfunction in the money-and-celebrity-crazed 1990s.” - Guardian