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Marya: A Life
Marya A Life
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Successful author and famous intellectual Marya Knauer did not always occupy such a secure and comfortable position in life. Her memories of her childhood in Innisfail, New York are by turns romantic and traumatic. The early violent death of her father and abandonment by her mother have left her with a permanent sense of dislocation and loss. A...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780525243748
ISBN-10: 0525243747
Publication Date: 3/12/1986
Pages: 310
Edition: 1st ed
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Publisher: E P Dutton
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Oates is one of the great writers of our age. Her works do tend to be dark however.
This is no exception.
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(From Library Journal) ... fairly straightforward narrative ... Constructed on a more intimate scale ..., it is a stark, well-drawn portrait of the title character told in "scenes from the life" style, from Marya's early days of poverty, her life as an abandoned child raised by an aunt and uncle, through hard-won college success and an academic career. Marya's development and her innermost fears and insecurities are revealed in a very personal, almost autobiographical manner.


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