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We Were the Mulvaneys

Joyce Carol Oates

Paperback | Pages: 454 pages

Rating: 3.73 | 91929 Users | 2924 Reviews

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Original Title:	We Were the Mulvaneys
ISBN:	0452282829 (ISBN13: 9780452282827)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Chautauqua(United States) New York State(United States)

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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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Title	:	We Were the Mulvaneys
Author	:	Joyce Carol Oates
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Oprah's Book Club edition
Pages	:	Pages: 454 pages
Published	:	September 1st 1997 by Plume (first published September 1996)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literary Fiction. Contemporary. Adult Fiction. Family. Novels. Literature

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I really needed Joyce Carol Oates to give me a break on this one. I was still reeling from the horrible experience I had of accidentally reading part of "Zombie" but I was prepared to try to forgive her. But even though no one in this book gave anyone else an ice-pick lobotomy, it was entirely devoid of any heart, hope, or mercy. I just don't need this in my life - there's nothing about this book stylistically that elevates it above its oppressively miserable story.

I read this book probably 10 years ago, but it has stayed with me. That's because this book made me strongly feel quite a range of negative emotions. I finished this book on a plane, and I was so burnt up after reading it that I left it on my seat in a huff. (In fact this is the book I refer to in this review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...). I thought this book was way too long, especially the first few hundred pages. It took forever to get the story off the ground. It was painfully

Warning! Warning! Potential spoilers contained in this rant-filled review!We Were the Mulvaneys is probably JCOs most known novel. I cant for the life of me understand why. I will be the first to tell you what a JCO enthusiast I am, yet before reading this I had never read a single novel of hers. I had read and loved her short stories as if they were written for my eyes only and I cherished them as such. I still domore so now after having read this book.This book is.something.I guess a lot can

Who doesn't desire his father's death? Fyodor Dostoevsky<<2.5 stars>>I want to write a few words about this novel while it's fresh on my mind instead of moving it to the back of my review line. A first point would be that Oates could have shown what she wanted to show--the disintegration of a seemingly typical family--in three-hundred pages instead of four-hundred and fifty plus. Besides its verbosity, the chief problem I had with the novel was that Oates kept trying to make the

I was just nearly through writing a review of this, and Goodreads crashed and I lost it! We Were a Review of We Were the Mulvaneys. :-(

While the characters were written well and the dialogue was top notch- this books was unbelievably depressing.Would be fascinating to see how the lives of the 4 children of the alcoholic father and the kind mother turn out after 20 years from the book ending. I could see the would be scientist who kidnapped the bum who raped his sister, turning out like the dad and drinkng himself to death while the marine would be a great person. The raped daughter got MARRIED which I found totally out of

I have seen this movie on TV several times and finally found the book at the library. I was suprised at how long it was...nearly 500 pages...but I was excited to finally be reading it. In this novel, Oates tells the story of a near-perfect family...mom and dad in love, 4 loving siblings, all living in a small town on a farm filled with love and animals. Everything is going along fine until the only daughter, who is beautiful and universally loved, suffers a tragedy. From this point on, the