We Were the Mulvaneys
by Joyce Carol Oates
Recommended by Oprah Winfrey and Susan Orlean
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Fiction, and Nonfiction.
The Mulvaneys of High Point Farm in Mt. Ephraim, New York, are a large and fortunate clan, blessed with good looks, abundant charisma, and boundless promise. But over the twentyfive year span of this ambitious novel, the Mulvaneys will slide, almost imperceptibly at first, from the pinnacle of happiness, transformed by the vagaries of fate into a ...
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