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We Were the Mulvaneys is a novel written by Joyce Carol Oates, and was published in 1996. We Were the Mulvaneys was featured in Oprah's Book Club in January 2001. The novel chronicles the Mulvaneys, a seemingly perfect family living in the small, rural town of Mt. Ephraim, New York, during the latter part of the 20th century.
Sep 1, 1996 · We Were the Mulvaneys is a book that moves over the unwinding and dissolution of a family like a discriminating hand over braille. Joyce Carol Oates introduces a 6 member family at their peak. Maybe even she introduces them past their zenith and onto the shallow downwind slope of the bell curve.
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Jan 24, 2001 · A powerful and heartbreaking story of a family torn apart by a rape and its aftermath. The novel explores the themes of free will, evolution, gender, class, spirituality, and the American dream through the eyes of the Mulvaneys and their friends.
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.
In We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates writes with piercing clarity and deep sympathy of the dissolution of the American family—and an American way of life.
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Sep 1, 1997 · 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.
Sep 18, 1996 · A review of Joyce Carol Oates's novel We Were the Mulvaneys, a saga of a family's unhappiness and tragedy in upstate New York. The review praises Oates's skillful dramatization and her grasp of middle-class culture, and compares her to Dreiser.
