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Author Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-

Title My sister, my love : the intimate story of Skyler Rampike / Joyce Carol Oates.

Imprint New York, NY : Ecco, c2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  813.54 Oa8my 2008 c.2  ---  Available
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  813.54 Oa8my 2008    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 562 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary The unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an infamous American family. A decade ago the Rampikes were destroyed by the murder of Skyler's six-year-old ice-skating champion sister, Bliss, and the media scrutiny that followed. Part investigation into the unsolved murder; part elegy for the lost Bliss and for Skyler's own lost childhood; and part corrosively funny expose of the pretensions of upper-middle-class American suburbia, this captivating novel explores with unexpected sympathy and subtlety the intimate lives of those who dwell in Tabloid Hell.
Contents Red-ink heart -- "Happiest little girl on earth" -- Little Miss Ice Princess -- Posthumous -- And after -- Pilgrimage to hell, and back.
Subject Girls -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
Figure skaters -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.
Sisters -- Death -- Fiction.
Murder victims' families -- Fiction.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Fiction.
Mass media and crime -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Psychological fiction.
ISBN 0061547484 (alk. paper)
9780061547485 (alk. paper)
Standard No. NZ1 12171496
AU@ 000043374759
AU@ 000042559939

 
    
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