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  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  JOYCE CAROL OATES is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/ Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Accursed. 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.

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  NOVELS BY JOYCE CAROL OATES

  With Shuddering Fall (1964)

  A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967)

  Expensive People (1968)

  them (1969)

  Wonderland (1971)

  Do with Me What You Will (1973)

  The Assassins (1975)

  Childwold (1976)

  Son of the Morning (1978)

  Unholy Loves (1979)

  Bellefleur (1980)

  Angel of Light (1981)

  A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982)

  Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984)

  Solstice (1985)

  Marya: A Life (1986)

  You Must Remember This (1987)

  American Appetites (1989)

  Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (1990)

  Black Water (1992)

  Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (1993)

  What I Lived For (1994)

  Zombie (1995)

  We Were the Mulvaneys (1996)

  Man Crazy (1997)

  My Heart Laid Bare (1998)

  Broke Heart Blues (1999)

  Blonde (2000)

  Middle Age: A Romance (2001)

  I’ll Take You There (2002)

  The Tattooed Girl (2003)

  The Falls (2004)

  Missing Mom (2005)

  Black Girl / White Girl (2006)

  The Gravedigger’s Daughter (2007)

  My Sister, My Love (2008)

  Little Bird of Heaven (2009)

  Mudwoman (2012)

  The Accursed (2013)

  Carthage (2014)

  The Sacrifice (2015)

  CREDITS

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  COPYRIGHT

  This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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  EPub Edition January 2016 ISBN 9780062416117

  ISBN 978-0-06-241609-4

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