New Directions Paperbook The Rise of Life on Earth, (Paperback)
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| Management number | 240258236 | Release Date | 2026/07/16 | List Price | US$5.58 | Model Number | 240258236 | ||
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Selected by <em>The New York Times Book Review</em> as one of the most notable books of 1991, Joyce Carol Oates's <em>The Rise of Life on Earth</em> is a memorable portrait of one of the "insulted and injured" of American society. Set in the underside of working-class Detroit of the '60s and '70s, this short, lyric novel sketches Kathleen Hennessy's violent childhood--shattered by a broken home, child-beating, and murder--and follows her into her early adult years as a hospital health-care worker. Overworked, underpaid, and quietly overzealous, Kathleen falls in love with a young doctor, whose exploitation of her sets the course of the remainder of her life, in which her passivity masks a deep fury and secret resolve to take revenge.
- New Directions Paperbook The Rise of Life on Earth, (Paperback)
- Author: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- ISBN: 9780811212137
- Format: Paperback
- Publication Date: 1992-09-17
- Page Count: 142
| Book format | Paperback |
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| Fiction/nonfiction | Fiction |
| Genre | Literature & Fiction |
| Publication date | September, 1992 |
| Pages | 142 |
| Subgenre | Literary |
| Series title | New Directions Paperbook |
| Number in series | 1 |
| Edition | 1 |
| Publisher | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Original languages | English |
| Language | English |
| Is collectible | N |
| Character | Kathleen Hennessy |
| Binding type | Perfect Binding |
| Recording time | 0 min |
| Retail packaging | Single Piece |
| Assembled product dimensions (l x w x h) | 5.29 x 0.37 x 8.00 in |
| Assembled product weight | 0.41 lb |
| Bisac subject heading | Fiction |
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