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Rape: A Love Story (Hardcover)

by Joyce Carol Oates (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Atlantic Books (14 Jul 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1843544121
  • ISBN-13: 978-1843544128
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.4 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 682,189 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"'Joyce Carol Oates is a genius' Guardian"


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‘Raw and rapid… both disturbing and compelling… Simple and shocking… tailor-made to trigger debate.’ --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Challenging read, 10 April 2006
By Mrs Lynda Wiseman (Macduff, Scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Rape: A Love Story (Paperback)
If this is the first book that you have read by Joyce Carol Oates and I can guaruntee that you won't be dissapointed.
You will find your perceptions of victim and assailant constantly challenged, wondering how this tragic start to a story could ever be resolved. And Yet Oates manages to drag us in to this world of the victim of a gang rape and her daughter who witnessed the event.
Your heart is twisted continually as you are dropped into the story at crucial moments allowed to feel what the victim feels and yet see the perceptions of others towards a victim of rape.
Each character is carefully and beautifully painted and this book has an unbearable tension as we wait to see if justice can ever be done. And yet without any air of predictability the story is beautifully resolved and leaves the reader breathless with relief and wanting to pick it up and start again! Try it and see for yourself
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Don't do with Me as You will, 9 Nov 2006
By MICHAEL ACUNA (Southern California United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rape: A Love Story (Paperback)
Over the years, Joyce Carol Oates has used the short novel form as a way to expiate her literary and personal demons; subjects she only touches upon in her more "serious" novels. In "Rape, A Love Story" we have the horrible gang rape of Teena Maguire witnessed by her daughter, Bethie. Much of "Rape" reads like a police report or something you might watch on Court TV. The writing is very spare, direct, and journalistically precise: "the woman had to be drunk, high on coke herself, partying since early evening and by midnight you can figure the state she was in, how the hell could Teena Maguire even recognize who had sex with her? And how many"
The Love story angle of the title is of course not a straight ahead, direct man-to woman one but one involving a Niagara Falls Policeman, Dromoor, who finds Teena at the crime scene and who takes it upon himself to become her avenging Angel: "A gun excited him. It was a good feeling. Quickened his pulse so he could actually feel it. Sometimes a tinge in the groin"
"Rape" is not a treatise on rape, per se, nor is it wholly a comment on the tendency of society to place blame on the victim. What it is, is a serious commentary on the randomness of crime: crime that is too often fueled by drugs and alcohol. More imprtantly though it is about the devastating personal effect crime has on the victim and the family of the victim.
Like "Zombie," "The Rise of Life on Earth" and last years "Beasts," "Rape" is out to make a point about a very specific subject. Oates doesn't waste any time getting there and uses very few words in the process. "Rape" is not a major Oates work but it is an interesting, often pathetic and emotionally aware one. And as such it is of interest to all of her fans that crave a quick Oates fix before the next full length novel.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars masterpiece, 11 Mar 2006
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joyce carol oates is definitely the best LIVING american (usa+canada, no way margaret atwood is better)writer. this is her best book: amazing and shocking story, great style in writing.is a book that everybody should read. moreover,the cover is sooooo beautiful!!!!!is the perfect book!i love it!she should win the nobel(finally).
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2.0 out of 5 stars made the longlist 2006 oranage prize award - disturbing
As the title suggests this is a horrific tale of a young girls gang rape and for that reason if you find this disturbing do not read. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Dr Phibes

5.0 out of 5 stars Astonishing
I'd never read an Oates book before and came across this one by chance. Glad I did. I was intrigued by the title. How could rape be also a love story? Read more
Published 11 months ago by Michael Watson

4.0 out of 5 stars a good read
well as i was looking for a quick read for a uni assignment/book review about rape this was perfect, definatly a quick read, only took a few hours to read. Read more
Published on 7 Nov 2006 by R. Gregory

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not great
This snack-sized book certainly gives the reader plenty to think about, but none of it very original. Read more
Published on 8 Oct 2006 by Mungus

5.0 out of 5 stars Rape - A Love Story
There isn't much I can say about this book except that it is brilliant! Everybody should read "Rape" to see the extent of human complexities. I read it in 3 hours. Read more
Published on 11 Jul 2005 by JoyfulSky27

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