My sister, my love : the intimate story of Skylar Rampike / Joyce Carol Oates.
The unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an infamous American family. A decade ago the Rampikes were destroyed by the murder of Skyler's six-year-old ice-skating champion sister, Bliss, and the media scrutiny that followed. Part investigation into the unsolved murder; part elegy for the lost Bliss and for Skyler's own lost childhood; and part corrosively funny expose of the pretensions of upper-middle-class American suburbia, this captivating novel explores with unexpected sympathy and subtlety the intimate lives of those who dwell in Tabloid Hell.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780061547485 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0061547484 (alk. paper)
- Physical Description: 562 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st edition
- Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, c2008.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |