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No cover — Joyce Carol Oates: We Were the Mulvaneys (1997, Plume)

464 pages

English language

Published Sept. 30, 1997 by Plume.

ISBN:: 978-0-452-28282-7

(1 review)

We Were the Mulvaneys is a novel written by Joyce Carol Oates, and was published in 1996. We Were the Mulvaneys was featured in Oprah's Book Club in January, 2001. The novel chronicles the Mulvaneys, a seemingly perfect family living in the small, rural town of Mt. Ephraim, New York, during the latter part of the 20th century. The Mulvaneys own a successful roofing business, and are obsessed with social status. However, an incident that is hushed up in town and never spoken of again shatters the family fabric and has tragic consequences.

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5 stars

Los Mulvaneys: padre, madre, tres hijos y una hija, viven más o menos felices en una granja del upstate New York hasta que un incidente pone sus vidas patas arriba, la de cada uno de una forma diferente.

Una novela larguísima, de esas que te tienen entretenido un mes entero. Y buena, cuesta trabajo dejarla para (por ejemplo) ponerse a hacer la cena. La construcción de los personajes, la narración, los diálogos, todo encaja perfectamente, todo se comprende. Me recuerda mucho a los novelones de Jonathan Franzén, muy probable discípulo de Joyce Carol. Si no la has leído, ya estás tardando.