Joyce Carol Oates
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An epic family novel about the division between the permissible and the forbidden, between ordinary life and the secret places of the heart. Set in an
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industrial, working-class town in upstate New York, this is the story of the Stevicks: two parents trapped in a frustrating marriage; their idealistic, ambitious son, and fifteen-year-old Enid Maria, who becomes caught up in a secret sexual relationship with her uncle Felix, a professional boxer twice her age.
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