My sister, my love : the intimate story of Skyler Rampike / Joyce Carol Oates.

1st ed.

New York, NY : Ecco, c2008.

562 p. ; 24 cm.

BEIN Zab Oa84 2008M: Numberline on t.p. verso indicates 1st printing: "08 09 10 11 12 WBC/RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1."

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.

English

August 07, 2008

Includes bibliographical references and index.