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Man Crazy
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Man Crazy
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Joyce Oates
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| Series | Virago Modern Classics |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:288 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 126 |
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| Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781860495472
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| Classifications | Dewey:813.54 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Little, Brown Book Group
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| Imprint |
Virago Press Ltd
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| Publication Date |
5 August 1999 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
An intense roller-coaster ride into the abyss, MAN CRAZY charts the fall and rise of teenager Ingrid Boone, abandoned by her father, moving from town to town, taking what she can get and always giving too much in return. This is a novel about the horrors waiting at the end of the road for the innocent, but in the end it is about one girl's realisation that men don't make you more real, that pain isn't an integral part of normal life.
Author Biography
Joyce Carol Oates was born in 1938. She has written twenty-seven novels and numerous collections of stories, poetry and plays. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University.
Reviews'Her writing is sinister, gothic and full of atmosphere ... one of America's most original and disturbing voices' SUNDAY TIMES 'Oates is one of the finest and most devastating living writers ... this novel [is] extraordinary ... a darkly comic monologue of panic and desperation, which, thankfully, allows you back up once it's dragged you down' JULIE MYERSON, MAIL ON SUNDAY 'The bizarre twists and turns of Ingrid's life take on a hallucinatory intensity ... the one constant of the gripping story - the emotional deprivation that has scarred Ingrid for life - comes through with a fierce burning clarity' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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