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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)

We Were the Mulvaneys

Joyce Carol Oates

Paperback | Pages: 454 pages

Rating: 3.73 | 91929 Users | 2924 Reviews

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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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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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I love this book, for the same reason other people dislike it, and can't seem to finish it. I am surprised by all of the people who say that the father's reaction to the girl after she is raped "doesn't make sense". They don't seem to be aware that his reaction is typical of a man's reaction in such a situation, when a woman or girl he loves, and feels he should have been able to protect, has been violated by rape, she becomes a symbol to him of his failure as a man, to protect that which he



By the end of this book I was crying. I just want to start with that and get it cleared out of the way. It wasn't just a sniff and the threat of tears, I had actual tears running down my face and snot streaming out of my nose. I was leaking enough that I actually had to put the book down and go grab some tissues.This book is very emotional, not just with how it makes the reader feel, but with how it's written. There was something unique about Oates writing that reflected a purely emotional

Six months after the death of Joyce Carol Oates a couple of her fans will visit her grave. Just underneath the keening mournful almost-Canadian wind as they stand by the graveside they will hear to their consternation a little tiptappy scratching noise. From underground. They will run run run to get the caretaker who will get the police who will get the bigger police. They'll all hear the sound. Tippytappy, scritchscratch. They'll hum and haw, and then they'll exhume the body. When they crack

Confession. I have a peculiar interest in stories that most people consider depressing. I like to observe how people fail. I enjoy watching an author destroy families. Poor decisions, personal flaws, bad luck, awful timing--I don't care what causes it, just as long as the characters unravel, sucking faster clockwise down the toilet. Let me be clear: in real life I don't wish bad things to happen. But, there's a lot of human suffering in the world, and I find that subject more interesting than

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