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999			_c43398 _d43398
001			on1102576515
003			OCoLC
005			20231124073742.0
008			190528s2019 nyu 000 1 eng
020			_a9780008339647 _q(hardback)
020			_a0008339643 _q(hardback)
029	0		_aAU@ _b000065320995
029	1		_aAU@ _b000065335668
029	1		_aAU@ _b000065349812
035			_a(OCoLC)1102576515
040			_aAU@ _beng _erda _cAU@ _dOCLCO _dNZAUC _dOCLCO
050		4	_aPS
082	0	4	_a823.914
100			_aOates, Joyce Carol, _d1938- _eauthor. _916183
245	1	0	_aMy life as a rat : _ba novel / _cJoyce, Carol Oates.
260			_aLondon, England : _bFourth Estate, _c 2019.
300			_a402 pages ; _c23 cm
520			_a"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 own long estrangement."--Publisher description.
650		0	_aBetrayal _vFiction _98196
650		0	_aLife change events _vFiction. _92839
650		0	_aReflection (Philosophy) _vFiction. _944732
650		0	_aAlienation (Social psychology) _vFiction. _95775
650		0	_aFamilies _vFiction. _9128
650		0	_aSelf-realization in women _vFiction. _9100
655		0	_aDomestic fiction _9147
655		0	_aPsychological fiction. _2lcgft _9301
942			_2ddc _cFIC
948			_hNO HOLDINGS IN NZWMT - 43 OTHER HOLDINGS