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Barcode34444002740207
Circ StatusAvailable
LibraryBeaver Falls
TitleBroke heart blues / Joyce Carol Oates.
AuthorOates, Joyce Carol, 1938- author.
Call NoFic Oates
CollectionFiction
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Fic Oates AvailableBeaver FallsFiction   344440027402072024

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 1636141145
International Standard Book Number 9781636141145
Personal Name Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- author.
Title Statement Broke heart blues / Joyce Carol Oates.
Edition Statement 25th Anniversary edition.
Imprint ©1999.
Imprint Brooklyn, New York: Akashic Books, [2024]
Physical Description 431 pages ; 23 cm.
General Note "AKB761"--spine.
General Note Originally published in 1999 by Dutton Books.
Summary, Etc. In the heart of a Languid July, eleven-year-old John Reddy Heart drives a traffic-stopping, salmon-colored Cadillac into the quiet upstate town of Willowsville, New York. His mother, Dahlia Heart, a blackjack dealer, has brought her family east from Las Vegas to claim the rambling mansion left to her by a wealthy suitor. But it is John Reddy--already growing into a heartbreaking hybrid of James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Elvis Presley--who will claim the town itself. It is John Reddy who will arouse the desire of Willowsville's teenage girls and the worship of its boys, the fear and envy of its men, and the yearning of its women. And it is John Reddy who will capture the town's soul forever on the night a prominent citizen is shot dead in Dahlia Heart's bedroom--and a statewide manhunt sweeps Willowsville's rebel outlaw into the realm of living myth.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term City and town life New York (State) Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Psychological fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Young men New York (State) Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term New York (State) Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Domestic fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Psychological fiction.