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The Rise of Life on Earth
Paperback
Series: New Directions Paperbook
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ISBN10: 0811212130
ISBN13: 9780811212137
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Sep 17 1992
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.29 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780811212137
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Sep 17 1992
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.29 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the most notable books of 1991, Joyce Carol Oates's The Rise of Life on Earth is a memorable portrait of one of the insulted and injured of American society. Set in the underside of working-class Detroit of the '60s and '70s, this short, lyric novel sketches Kathleen Hennessy's violent childhood--shattered by a broken home, child-beating, and murder--and follows her into her early adult years as a hospital health-care worker. Overworked, underpaid, and quietly overzealous, Kathleen falls in love with a young doctor, whose exploitation of her sets the course of the remainder of her life, in which her passivity masks a deep fury and secret resolve to take revenge.
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