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The Sacrifice Joyce Carol Oates

The Sacrifice By Joyce Carol Oates

The Sacrifice by Joyce Carol Oates


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'Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going' Gillian Flynn

Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates blends sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power in her latest incendiary novel.

The Sacrifice Summary

The Sacrifice by Joyce Carol Oates

'Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going' Gillian Flynn

Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates blends sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power in her latest incendiary novel.

Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates returns with an incendiary novel that illuminates the tragic impact of sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power on innocent lives and probes the persistence of stereotypes, the nature of revenge, the complexities of truth, and our insatiable hunger for sensationalism.

When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanises her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades. In this magisterial work of fiction, Joyce Carol Oates explores the uneasy fault lines in a racially troubled society. In such a tense, charged atmosphere, Oates reveals that there must always be a sacrifice - of innocence, truth, trust, and, ultimately, of lives. Unfolding in a succession of multiracial voices, in a community transfixed by this alleged crime and the spectacle unfolding around it, this profound novel exposes what - and who - the sacrifice actually is, and what consequences these kind of events hold for us all.
Working at the height of her powers, Oates offers a sympathetic portrait of the young girl and her mother, and challenges our expectations and beliefs about our society, our biases, and ourselves. As the chorus of its voices - from the police to the media to the victim and her family - reaches a crescendo, The Sacrifice offers a shocking new understanding of power and oppression, innocence and guilt, truth and sensationalism, justice and retribution.

A chilling exploration of complex social, political, and moral themes - the enduring trauma of the past, modern racial and class tensions, the power of secrets, and the primal decisions we all make to protect those we love - The Sacrifice is a major work of fiction from one of our most revered literary masters.

The Sacrifice Reviews

'[Joyce Carol Oates] is simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going, as far as I'm concerned' Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl

'A powerful new novel ... We see how, in the hands of a great writer, a gripping story can be torn from the poisonous rubble' Rose Tremain, Guardian

'Visceral and hypnotising ... simmers with barely concealed rage at the impotence inflicted on people by race and gender inequalities' Lesley McDowell, Independent

'Oates demonstrates a fearlessness in her writing. The book has the energy and force of a river in full flow, filled with dangerous undercurrents and eddies' Victoria Moore, Daily Mail

'A savage satire on race relations and the culture of sensationalism ... The Sacrifice ranks among Joyce Carol Oates' best novels' Robert Rorke, New York Post

'With great energy and a cold eye for contemporary American race relations ... offers a mix of fiery drama and the cold bone truths of race as we all live it today' Alan Cheuse, NPR Books

'Oates' firecracker of a novel explores the minefield of race relations in thought-provoking style' Max Davidson, Irish Mail on Sunday

'Explosive' Jon Michaud, Washington Post

About Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her books include We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. In 2003 she received the Commonwealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature, and in 2006 she received the Chicago Tribune Lifetime Achievement Award. Her recent work of non-fiction on grief and bereavement, A Widow's Story was a critically-acclaimed success.

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GOR006574866
9780008114862
0008114862
The Sacrifice by Joyce Carol Oates
Used - Very Good
Paperback
HarperCollins Publishers
20150129
320
N/A
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