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Rape: A Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates

ISBN: 9780786714827
Release Date: 30 Nov 2004
Average rating: (read by 6 members)

Categories: Modern fiction

Teena Maguire should not have tried to shortcut her way home that Fourth of July. Not after midnight, not through Rocky Point Park. Not the way she was dressed in a tank top, denim cutoffs, and high-heeled sandals. Not with her twelve-year-old daughter Bethie. Not with packs of local guys running loose on hormones, rage, and alcohol. A victim of gang rape, left for dead in the park boathouse, the once vivacious Teena can now only regret that she has survived. At a relentlessly compelling pace punctuated by lonely cries in the night and the whisper of terror in the afternoon, Joyce Carol Oates unfolds the story of Teena and Bethie, their assailants, and their unexpected, silent champion, a man who knows the meaning of justice. And love.

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	js1997
	Rated it 4 months ago

This a very difficult subject to read about. The book is a very fast read (only 154 pages), but has an impact. The writing style was a bit odd for me, but overall it was a good book.

	5timeslucky Full Review
	Rated it 9 months ago

It's written in a concise, condensed way. With different points of view from the different characters. It makes you think - I would say that about Teena, I would have taken the walk with my daughter - you can see all sides. It all ties up nicely at...

	JulissaMullen
	Rated it 1 years ago

I liked this book

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