Oates Joyce Carol
Oates Joyce Carol - Broke Heart Blues - Paperback
Oates Joyce Carol - Broke Heart Blues - Paperback
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Description: 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. Over the course of thirty years Broke Heart Blues charts the rise and fall - and the ultimate call to reckoning - of John Reddy Heart through the myriad voices of those who find him their whipping boy savior dream lover and confessor. At once a scathing indictment of the cultlike nature of fame and celebrity in America and a deeply moving mediation on human need and longing the novel explores loneliness and the profound price we pay for our desires and dreams.
Title: Broke Heart Blues
Author(s): Oates Joyce Carol
Publisher: Akashic Books U. S.
Barcode: 9781636141145
Pages: 446 Pages
Publication Date: 10/1/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: 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. Over the course of thirty years Broke Heart Blues charts the rise and fall - and the ultimate call to reckoning - of John Reddy Heart through the myriad voices of those who find him their whipping boy savior dream lover and confessor. At once a scathing indictment of the cultlike nature of fame and celebrity in America and a deeply moving mediation on human need and longing the novel explores loneliness and the profound price we pay for our desires and dreams.
Title: Broke Heart Blues
Author(s): Oates Joyce Carol
Publisher: Akashic Books U. S.
Barcode: 9781636141145
Pages: 446 Pages
Publication Date: 10/1/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
