Binding: Paperback
Description: Finally returned to print in a beautiful new trade paperback edition American Appetites is classic Joyce Carol Oates a suspenseful thriller in which the happy facade of an affluent suburban couple crumbles under the weight of tragedy and scandal. For twenty - six years Ian Mc Cullough a demographics researcher at a social science think tank has been happily married to Glynnis a successful cookbook writer and a brilliant hostess. When a drunken argument about a suspected infidelity turns physical Ian accidentally pushes Glynnis through a plate glass window or did she fall? Now Glynnis is dead Ian is charged with murder and their American dream is shattered. And soon in a courtroom where guilt and responsibility become two very separate issues Ian will stand trial fighting for his life. A sophisticated witty and chilling novel from the incomparable Joyce Carol Oates American Appetites explores our insatiable hunger for power love and success and how comfortable privileged lives and the course of fate can be dramatically transformed in an instant.
Title: American Appetites
Author(s): Oates Joyce Carol
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062269232
Pages: 416 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/15/2014