Joyce Carol Oates
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
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...