A Study Guide For Joyce Carol Oates S We Were The Mulvaneys

A Study Guide for Joyce Carol Oates's "We Were the Mulvaneys," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

An Oprah Book Club® selection A New York Times Notable Book The Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet. But something happens on Valentine’s Day, 1976—an incident that is hushed up in the town and never spoken of in the Mulvaney home—that rends the fabric of their family life...with tragic consequences. Years later, the youngest son attempts to piece together the fragments of the Mulvaneys’ former glory, seeking to uncover and understand the secret violation that brought about the family’s tragic downfall. Profoundly cathartic, this extraordinary novel unfolds as if Oates, in plumbing the darkness of the human spirit, has come upon a source of light at its core. Moving away from the dark tone of her more recent masterpieces, Joyce Carol Oates turns the tale of a family struggling to cope with its fall from grace into a deeply moving and unforgettable account of the vigor of hope and the power of love to prevail over suffering. “It’s the novel closest to my heart....I’m deeply moved that Oprah Winfrey has selected this novel for Oprah’s Book Club, a family novel presented to Oprah’s vast American family.”—Joyce Carol Oates

In We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates--one of the great figures in modern American fiction--explores a crisis in the life of a seemingly perfect American family...and the devastating consequences that follow. Get the most out of this enthralling novel with the help of this informative, illuminating Reader's Companion: Why do Marianne's parents banish her after she's raped? What have the Mulvaneys lost at the end of the novel? What have they gained? Why does Joyce Carol Oates consider We Were the Mulvaneys the novel closest to her heart?

We Were the Mulvaneys is a novel by American writer Joyce Carol Oates, originally published in the US in 1996. Set largely in the rural Northeastern United States in the 1970s, this story deals with the myth of the ideal American family and the ruinous effects it can have when real-life events threaten the appearance of familial unity. After having been featured as an Oprah Book Club selection in January 2001, the novel became a Number 1 Bestseller, and a New York Times Notable Book. It also became an Emmy-nominated Lifetime Television movie in 2002.Joyce Carol Oates (1938- ) is one of the pre-eminent American writers, adept at prose, poetry, drama, and nonfiction. Since 1963 she has published more than 65 novels, as well as numerous short story collections, known for experimentation in style and content, controversial subject matters and technical mastery. She has won numerous awards, including a National Book Award, two O. Henry Awards (for short fiction), a National Humanities Medal, and the Pen/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Art of the Short Story. She has been shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize five times, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and is widely translated.The edition of the novel used for this study guide is by Harper Perennial, published in the UK in 2008...

We Were the Mulvaneys is a novel by American writer Joyce Carol Oates, originally published in the US in 1996. Set largely in the rural Northeastern United States in the 1970s, this story deals with the myth of the ideal American family and the ruinous effects it can have when real-life events threaten the appearance of familial unity. After having been featured as an Oprah Book Club selection in January 2001, the novel became a Number 1 Bestseller, and a New York Times Notable Book. It also became an Emmy-nominated Lifetime Television movie in 2002.Joyce Carol Oates (1938- ) is one of the pre-eminent American writers, adept at prose, poetry, drama, and nonfiction. Since 1963 she has published more than 65 novels, as well as numerous short story collections, known for experimentation in style and content, controversial subject matters and technical mastery. She has won numerous awards, including a National Book Award, two O. Henry Awards (for short fiction), a National Humanities Medal, and the Pen/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Art of the Short Story. She has been shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize five times, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and is widely translated.The edition of the novel used for this study guide is by Harper Perennial, published in the UK in 2008.

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