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#766 of 8,085 books · #458 in Fiction
Won the National Book Award for Fiction (1970).
Loretta Wendall and her two children experience violence and poverty in Detroit from the Depression in the 1930s to the riots of 1967.
Awards
- National Book Award for FictionWonMajor(1970)
Other awarded books from Joyce Carol Oates
- Black Water (1993)0 wins · 8 score
- Blonde (2000)0 wins · 8 score
- What I Lived For (2019)0 wins · 8 score
- Zombie (1996)1 win · 8 score
- A Book of American Martyrs (2017)1 win · 5 score
- A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967)0 wins · 4 score
- Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (1990)0 wins · 4 score
- Bellefleur (1987)0 wins · 4 score
- Expensive People (2009)0 wins · 4 score
- Little Bird of Heaven (2010)0 wins · 4 score
- Lovely, Dark, Deep (2014)0 wins · 4 score
- The Gravedigger's Daughter (2007)0 wins · 4 score
- Wonderland (2011)0 wins · 4 score
- You Must Remember This (1987)0 wins · 4 score
- Big Mouth & Ugly Girl (2001)0 wins · 2 score
- The Accursed (2013)0 wins · 2 score
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