My Life as a Rat - Oates, Joyce Carol
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Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake, and is lying for one’s family ever justified? Can one do the right thing but bitterly regret it? My Life as a Rat follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an African American boy by her older brothers. In a succession of vividly recalled episodes, Violet contemplates the circumstances of her life as the initially beloved youngest child of seven…mehr

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Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake, and is lying for one’s family ever justified? Can one do the right thing but bitterly regret it? My Life as a Rat follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an African American boy by her older brothers. In a succession of vividly recalled episodes, Violet contemplates the circumstances of her life as the initially beloved youngest child of seven Kerrigan children who inadvertently “informs” on her brothers, setting into motion their arrests and convictions and her long estrangement. Arresting and poignant, My Life as a Rat traces a life cast away from family—and from parents, siblings, and the Church—that forces Violet to discover her own identity, to break the powerful spell of family, and to emerge from her long banishment as a “rat” into a transformed life.
Autorenporträt
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 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers 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.
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'Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going' Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl

'I stand in awe before such an unresting hunger for the literary endeavour' Rose Tremain

'My Life as a Rat is Oates at her best - a powerful, uncompromising story that explores racism, misogyny and recent American history' Kate Saunders, The Times

'Sexism, rape, racism. Murder, sadism - fans will savour this stew of typical Oatsian nasties, in which 12-year old Violet is cruelly exiled from her family ... the odyssey her psyche endures is served well by Oates's juttery, rough-edged prose' Mail on Sunday

'Oates's novel adroitly touches on race, loyalty, misogyny, and class inequality while also telling a moving story with a winning narrator. This book should please her fans and win her new ones' Publishers Weekly

'Oates's prose contains a deep-felt rawness which hoversbetween hope, despair and love' Guardian
'Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going' Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl

'I stand in awe before such an unresting hunger for the literary endeavour' Rose Tremain

'My Life as a Rat is Oates at her best - a powerful, uncompromising story that explores racism, misogyny and recent American history' Kate Saunders, The Times

'Sexism, rape, racism. Murder, sadism - fans will savour this stew of typical Oatsian nasties, in which 12-year old Violet is cruelly exiled from her family ... the odyssey her psyche endures is served well by Oates's juttery, rough-edged prose' Mail on Sunday

'Oates's novel adroitly touches on race, loyalty, misogyny, and class inequality while also telling a moving story with a winning narrator. This book should please her fans and win her new ones' Publishers Weekly

'Oates's prose contains a deep-felt rawness which hovers between hope, despair and love' Guardian