Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Joyce Carol Oates
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Civil rights, 1960’s, United States or Americans, Racism, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Gender roles, Violence, War, Photography or photographers, Blood, Sports
- Locales: New York
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart has many of the elements that readers come to expect from Joyce Carol Oates—violence, drama, mystery—but also the complex social and economic portrait of American life in the 1950's and 1960's that she is so good at drawing. The story of Iris Courtney and Jinx Fairchild is another Oates account of adolescent love and frustration, but it is also a searing portrait of the effects of social class and race in the United States.
The novel is broken into three parts and an epilogue. Part 1 opens with the discovery of the body...
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