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JCO Bibliography - Novels & Novellas
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Joyce Carol Oates' The Rise of Life on Earth draws the reader into the secret life of Kathleen Hennessy, a nurse's aide who, as both martyr and avenging angel, is a memorable portrait of one of the "insulted and injured" of American society. Set in the underside of working-class Detroit of the '60s and '70s, this short, lyric novel sketches Kathleen's violent childhood—shattered by a broken home, child-beating, and murder—and follows her into her early adult years as a hospital health-care worker. Over-worked, underpaid, and quietly overzealous, Kathleen falls in love with a young doctor, whose exploitation of her
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Manufacturer: W.W. Norton
Release date: 31 March 1991
ISBN-10 : 0811211711 |
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Release date: 31 March 1991
ISBN-10 : 0811211711 |
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