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New York Times bestselling author of The Falls, Blonde, and We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates returns with a dark, wry, satirical tale—inspired by an unsolved American true-crime mystery."Dysfunctional families are all alike. Ditto 'survivors.'"So begins the unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an "infamous" American family. A decade ago the Rampikes were destroyed by the murder of Skyler's six-year-old ice-skating champion sister, Bliss, and the media scrutiny that followed. Part investigation into the unsolved murder; part elegy for the lost Bliss and for Skyler's own lost childhood; and part corrosively funny expose of the pretensions of upper-middle-class American suburbia, this captivating novel explores with unexpected sympathy and subtlety the intimate lives of those who dwell in Tabloid Hell.Likely to be Joyce Carol Oates's most controversial novel to date, as well as her most boldly satirical, this unconventional work of fiction is sure to be recognized as a classic exploration of the tragic interface between private life and the perilous life of "celebrity." In My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike, the incomparable Oates once again mines the depths of the sinister yet comic malaise at the heart of our contemporary culture.
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Death, Brothers and sisters, Literature, Girls, Mass media and crime, Cold cases (Criminal investigation), Murder victims' families, Crimes against, Figure skaters, Sisters, Fiction, Fiction, psychological, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Sisters, fiction, Crime, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, family life, general, Siblings, Siblings, fictionShowing 5 featured editions. View all 5 editions?
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My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike (P.S.)
June 9, 2009, Harper Perennial
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My Sister, My Love
2008, HarperCollins, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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in English
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My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike
June 24, 2008, Ecco
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in English
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My sister, my love: the intimate story of Skylar Rampike
2008, HarperCollins, Ecco
in English
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My sister, my love: the intimate story of Skylar Rampike
Publish date unknown, HarperCollins
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