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Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart by Joyce Carol Oates
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Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart

by Joyce Carol Oates

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this book is 400 pages. i started it and didn't like it that much and went on holiday. came home, got it back from the library and liked it better and went on holiday again. so on my 3rd go, i liked it much better.
i found "the crime" very bizarre and her fascination with black men/people a little peculiar. her parents' marriage was boring. i kept thinking of don johnson as her father. but the story of her university life with her professor's family was very good. the ending especially.
where is her father-in-law? does she actually not know her groom is gay? is he gay? does she actually love her father-in-law? ( )
  mahallett | Sep 2, 2009 |
This book started out with such great promise but unfortunately, completely fizzled out throughout the book. By the time the book ended, I hated it. I really felt disappointed with this book. It seemed that a great idea and premise was wasted and just went absolutely nowhere. This book does not leave me wanting to read any othe works by this author. ( )
  bookaholicgirl | Jun 8, 2007 |
one of her better ones - but I read it long ago ( )
  jhowell | Dec 23, 2006 |
1956 upstate NY 2 high school kids - black & white - are bound by murder

1.91 ( )
  aletheia21 | Nov 10, 2006 |
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