Английская Википедия:Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart

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First edition (publ. Dutton)

Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart is a 1990 novel by American novelist Joyce Carol Oates.[1] The title is taken from "In the Desert", a poem by Stephen Crane. Oates's novel was nominated for best work of fiction in the 1990 National Book Awards.[2]

Plot summary

In the early 1950s in Hammond, New York, a young white girl named Iris Courtney and her black friend Jinx Fairchild are united by a murder that they commit in self-defense. From this central moment, this novel weaves out the stories of two families that intercross across divisions of race and class.

Critical reaction

Entertainment Weekly gave it an A, calling Oates "a storyteller with few peers".[3]

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