You Must Remember This
JOYCE CAROL OATES

You Must Remember This by Joyce Carol Oates 20 reviews (1987) (448p) LA Times Book Prize for Fiction

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Book Description

Joyce Carol Oates's epic novel of an American family in the 1950's probes the tender division between the permissible and the forbidden, between ordinary life and the secret places of the heart. Set in an industrial, working-class town in upstate New York, this book chronicles the frustrating marriage of parents Lyle and Hannah; the idealistic political journey of son Warren, and the passionate, obsessive relationship that develops between 15-year-old Enid Maria and her uncle Felix, a professional boxer twice her age. While brilliantly re-creating a decade that worshipped conformity, You Must Remember This presents the lives of family members that break every convention in the search for meaning and fulfillment.

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Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates 183 reviews (2000) (752p) (PP) (NBA) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

What I Lived For by Joyce Carol Oates 19 reviews (1994) (624p) (PP) (PF) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates 63 reviews (1992) (154p) (PP) (NBCCA) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Because It Is Bitter and Because It Is My Heart by Joyce Carol Oates 25 reviews (1990) (416p) (NBA) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Bellefleur by Joyce Carol Oates 16 reviews (1980) (592p) (LATimes) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Them by Joyce Carol Oates 25 reviews (1969) (480p) (NBA) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Joyce Carol Oates Award Stats

Major Prize* Nominations 10   Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize* 7   Pulitzer Prize Wins 0   Pulitzer Prize Nominations 4 Black Water · Blonde · What I Lived For · Lovely, Dark, Deep ·   National Book Critics Circle Award Wins 0   National Book Critics Circle Award Nominations 2 Black Water · The Gravediggers Daughter ·   National Book Award Wins 1 Them ·   National Book Award Nominations 3 Because It Is Bitter and Because It Is My Heart · Blonde · Them ·   Man Booker Prize Wins 0   Man Booker Prize Nominations 0   PEN/Faulkner Award Wins 0   PEN/Faulkner Award Nominations 1 What I Lived For ·

*Major Prize = Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and PEN/Faulkner Award

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