My Heart Laid Bare
(Sprache: Englisch)
Finally returned to print in a beautiful new trade paperback edition, MY HEART LAID BARE is a haunting historical tale of a 19th century family of con artists, skillfully illustrating the chilling lesson that recognizing and exploiting weakness in others...
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Finally returned to print in a beautiful new trade paperback edition, MY HEART LAID BARE is a haunting historical tale of a 19th century family of con artists, skillfully illustrating the chilling lesson that recognizing and exploiting weakness in others does not protect one from succumbing to the very same flaws in oneself.
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Finally returned to print in a beautiful paperback edition, a haunting gothic tale of a nineteenth-century immigrant family of confidence artists-a story of morality, duplicity, and retribution that explores the depths of human manipulation and vulnerabilityThe patriarch of the Licht family, Abraham has raised a brood of talented con artists, children molded in his image, and experts in The Game, his calling and philosophy of life. Traveling from one small town to the next across the continent, from the Northeast to the frontier West, they skillfully swindle unsuspecting victims, playing on their greed, lust, pride, and small-mindedness. Despite their success, Abraham cannot banish a past that haunts him: the ghost of his ancestor Sarah Licht, a former con woman who met with a gruesome fate.
As Abraham involves his family in more and more complex and impressive schemes, he finds himself caught between the specter of Sarah and the growing terrors of his present. While his carefully crafted lies and schemes begin to fracture and disintegrate before his eyes, Abraham discovers that the bond of family is as tenuous and treacherous as the tricks he perpetrates upon unsuspecting strangers.
Autoren-Porträt von Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates, geb. 1938 in Lockport (NY), zählt zu den bedeutendsten amerikanischen Autorinnen der Gegenwart. Für ihre zahlreichen Romane und Erzählungen wurde sie mehrfach ausgezeichnet, unter anderem mit dem National Book Award. Joyce C. Oates lebt in Princeton, New Jersey, wo sie Literatur unterrichtet. Im Jahr 2012 erhielt sie den Blue Metropolis Literary Grand Prix.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Joyce Carol Oates
- 2015, 624 Seiten, Maße: 13,2 x 20,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: HarperCollins US
- ISBN-10: 0062269259
- ISBN-13: 9780062269256
- Erscheinungsdatum: 07.04.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
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