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What I lived for

Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: New York : Dutton, ©1994.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A Philistine discovers a social conscience. He is Jerome Corcoran, a real estate millionaire and city councilman who lives for money, food and sex. On his way to work he comes across a suicide, a black woman who was a critic of city hall. Corcoran smells foul play and for once decides to do something about it. By the author of Foxfire.
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Genre/Form: Psychological fiction
Domestic fiction
Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
What I lived for.
New York : Dutton, c1994
(OCoLC)624478066
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN: 0525938362 9780525938361
OCLC Number: 29753248
Notes: "A William Abrahams book."
Description: x, 608 p. ; 24 cm.
Responsibility: Joyce Carol Oates.

Abstract:

A Philistine discovers a social conscience. He is Jerome Corcoran, a real estate millionaire and city councilman who lives for money, food and sex. On his way to work he comes across a suicide, a black woman who was a critic of city hall. Corcoran smells foul play and for once decides to do something about it. By the author of Foxfire.

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