Because It Is Bitter and Because It Is My Heart
JOYCE CAROL OATES

Because It Is Bitter and Because It Is My Heart by Joyce Carol Oates 25 reviews (1990) (416p) National Book Award Finalist

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Book Description

Joyce Carol Oates is in full fire here. The motifs and themes of this rich, intricately textured, realistic novel belong to the American experience of the 1950s and '60s. But the vision of life that animates them is so clear and unflinching that the past comes to us with the force of revelation. "Fiction of extraordinary imaginative power."--The New York Times Book Review. Nominated for the National Book Award.

Other Award Winning Books by Joyce Carol Oates

Lovely, Dark, Deep by Joyce Carol Oates 24 reviews (2014) (432p) (PP) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

THE ACCURSED by Joyce Carol Oates 160 reviews (2013) (p) (NYT100) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Gravediggers Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates 84 reviews (2007) (992p) (NBCCA) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

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

You Must Remember This by Joyce Carol Oates 20 reviews (1987) (448p) (LATimes) 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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