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Автор: Joyce Carol Oates
Издательство: HarperCollins
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Жанр произведения: Контркультура
Год издания: 0
isbn: 9780008339661
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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2019

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      Joyce Carol Oates asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN: 978-0-00-833964-7

      Ebook Edition © April 2019 ISBN: 978-0-00-833966-1

      Version: 2020-04-01

       Dedication

       To my friend Elaine Showalter,

       and to my husband and first reader, Charlie Gross

      Contents

       Cover

       Title page

       Dedication

       The Secret I

       The Secret II

       Final Confession

       “Dear Christ What Did Violet Do Now”

       The Revelation

       The Bat

       Safe House

       Runaway

       II

       “Praying for Violet”

       Exile

       Sleepwalker

       The Iceberg

       Turnip Face

       Sisters

       “Mr. Sandman Bring Me a Dream”

       “Dirty Girl”

       The Stalker: 1997

       “You Are Not Wanted”

       Dirty Girl

       “Violet,