Skip to main content
Thumbnail for Little Bird of Heaven [electronic resource]

Little Bird of Heaven [electronic resource]

Oates, Joyce Carol2010
eBook
When a young wife and mother named Zoe Kruller is found brutally murdered, the Sparta police target two primary suspects: her estranged husband Delray and her longtime lover Eddy Diehl. In turn, the Krullers's son Aaron and Eddy's daughter Krista become obsessed with one another, each believing the other's father is guilty. Told in halves in the very different voices of Krista and Aaron, Little Bird of Heaven is classic Joyce Carol Oates, in which the lyricism of intense sexual love is intertwined with the anguish of loss, and tenderness is barely distinguishable from cruelty. By the novel's end, the fated lovers, meeting again as adults, are at last ready to exorcise the ghosts of the past and come to terms with their legacy of guilt, misplaced love and redemptive yearning. With Little Bird of Heaven, Joyce Carol Oates once again confirms her place as one of the most outstanding writers at work today.
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Fourth Estate, 2010
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
ISBN:
9780007358212
Language:
English
BRN:
2555417
View my active saved list
0 items in my active saved list