Name: American Appetites

Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Year: 1989
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9780517079799
9780062269232
0517079798
0062269232
Finally returned to print in a beautiful new trade paperback edition, American Appetites is classic Joyce Carol Oates'€”a suspenseful thriller in which the happy facade of an affluent suburban couple crumbles under the weight of tragedy and scandal. For twenty-six years, Ian McCullough, a demographics researcher at a social science think tank, has been happily married to Glynnis, a successful cookbook writer and a brilliant hostess. When a drunken argument about a suspected infidelity turns physical, Ian accidentally pushes Glynnis through a plate glass window'€”or did she fall? Now, Glynnis is dead, Ian is charged with murder, and their American dream is shattered. And soon, in a courtroom where guilt and responsibility become two very separate issues, Ian will stand trial, fighting for his life. A sophisticated, witty, and chilling novel from the incomparable Joyce Carol Oates, American Appetites explores our insatiable hunger for power, love, and success, and how comfortable, privileged lives'€”and the course of fate'€”can be dramatically transformed in an instant.
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