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Author Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-

Title My sister, my love : the intimate story of Skyler Rampike / Joyce Carol Oates.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Ecco, [2008]
©2008

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  PS3565.A8 M895 2008    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description 562 pages ; 24 cm
Summary The unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an infamous American family. A decade ago the Rampikes were destroyed by the murder of Skyler's six-year-old ice-skating champion sister, Bliss, and the media scrutiny that followed. Part investigation into the unsolved murder; part elegy for the lost Bliss and for Skyler's own lost childhood; and part corrosively funny expose of the pretensions of upper-middle-class American suburbia, this captivating novel explores with unexpected sympathy and subtlety the intimate lives of those who dwell in Tabloid Hell.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Red-ink heart -- "Happiest little girl on earth" -- Little Miss Ice Princess -- Posthumous -- And after -- Pilgrimage to hell, and back.
Subject Girls -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
Girls -- Crimes against.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Subject Figure skaters -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
Figure skaters.
Siblings -- Fiction.
Siblings.
Sisters -- Death -- Fiction.
Sisters -- Death.
Murder victims' families -- Fiction.
Murder victims' families.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Fiction.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation)
Mass media and crime -- Fiction.
Mass media and crime.
Genre/Form Psychological fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Subject Girls.
ISBN 9780061547485 alkaline paper
0061547484 alkaline paper