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| Genre/Form: | Domestic fiction Fiction |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Because it is bitter, and because it is my heart. New York : Dutton, 1990 (OCoLC)556100243 |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN: | 0525248609 9780525248606 |
| OCLC Number: | 20595707 |
| Notes: | "A William Abrahams book." |
| Description: | 405 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Joyce Carol Oates. |
Abstract:
Iris Courtney, a young white woman living in upstate New York in the decade prior to the civil rights movement, begins a clandestine relationship with Jinx Fairchild, a black man who had defended her in a fatal street fight with a white man.
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