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OverviewJoyce Carol Oates is one of the world’s most respected living novelists. ‘I’ll take You There’ is an intense, deeply moving story of how a young woman finds her place in the world. ‘In those days in the early 1960s we were not women yet but girls. This was, without irony perceived as our advantage.’ So begins ‘I’ll Take You There’, an astonishingly intimate and unsparing self-portrait of a young woman who comes of age in the most turbulent of American decades. 'Anellia' – as she sometimes calls herself – is a student at Syracuse University, the first time she has lived away from her family. Headstrong, passionate, occasionally obsessive, she is pitiless in exposing herself to her new life as she searches for a place in the world. In her quest for belonging, 'Anellia' discovers the risks, and curious rewards, of confronting the world: being taken in, and then cruelly rejected by a 'sisterhood' of her fellow students, falling recklessly in love with an older graduate student who happens to be black, making a journey westward when summoned by a figure from her past who she believed to be dead. Through this triptych of events, the atoms of 'Anellia's' life comes together as she begins her journey into adulthood. This spellbinding novel confirms Oates as one of America's most important writers. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our times. 'I'll Take You There' is a deeply moving, wry, intense examination of how a girl becomes a young woman. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joyce Carol OatesPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers Imprint: Fourth Estate Ltd Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.210kg ISBN: 9780007146451ISBN 10: 0007146450 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 07 July 2003 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews'Oates' precise and inspired writing is close to witchcraft.' Jeanne Moreau 'This intense character study becomes a testament to spiritual resilience. It is an excellent addition to Oates' formidable canon.' Daily Telegraph 'Maybe, just maybe, the Great American Novelist is a woman.' The Herald It's a good title and an appropriate one too, for in this intense, darkly poetic novel, prolific author Oates takes the reader deep into the psyche of a young American girl on the brink of adulthood. Her subject is a girl known only (and erroneously) as 'Anellia', an unconventional student whose experience of academic life is an vehemently rigorous one, shaping her consciousness and exposing her to a variety of influences that consolidate her feeling of being a perpetual outsider. Anellia is at university in the 1960s; desperate to gain a sense of identity, she initially pledges her loyalty to a sorority but cannot maintain the facade of perfect grooming and respectful hierarchy that implicitly governs the house. Unceremoniously cast out by her fellow scholars, she subsequently forms a strong passion for an older black student, an attraction that introduces her to the chaotic world of erotic desire. Despite her lover's relative indifference she stays in this destructive relationship until unexpectedly summoned to the bedside of her dying father, an event that finally pitches her toward maturity. Written in a strong, resonant prose that mirrors Anellia's painful inner journey, this is often a bleak, uncompromising read, illuminated by the clarity of Oates's distinctive voice. Treading the familiar path of rites-of-passage territory, she still manages to make her material seem fresh and unusual, and her acute perception of her characters and their surroundings holds the attention throughout. (Kirkus UK) Author InformationAuthor Website: http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/jco.htmlJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award and the PEN / Malamud Award, and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her books include We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, Carthage, A Book of American Martyrs and Hazards of Time Travel. She is Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. Tab Content 6Author Website: http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/jco.htmlCountries AvailableAll regions |