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We Were the Mulvaneys Free FREE WE WERE THE MULVANEYS PDF Joyce Carol Oates | 464 pages | 02 Jul 2001 | HarperCollins Publishers | 9781841156996 | English | London, United Kingdom We Were the Mulvaneys - eBook - - Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Ephraim, New York, We Were the Mulvaneys a large and fortunate clan, blessed with good looks, abundant charisma, and boundless promise. But over the twenty-five year span of this ambitious novel, the We Were the Mulvaneys will slide, almost imperceptibly at first, from the pinnacle of happiness, transformed by the vagaries of fate into a scattered collection of l The Mulvaneys of High Point Farm in Mt. But over the twenty-five 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 scattered collection We Were the Mulvaneys lost and lonely souls. It is the youngest son, Judd, now an adult, who attempts to piece together the fragments of the Mulvaneys' former glory, seeking to uncover and understand the secret violation that occasioned the family's tragic downfall. Each of the Mulvaneys endures some form of exile- physical or spiritual - but in the end they find a way to bridge the chasms that have opened up We Were the Mulvaneys them, reuniting in the spirit of love and healing. Get A Copy. PaperbackOprah's Book Club editionpages. Published September 1st by Plume first published September More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about We Were the Mulvaneysplease sign up. This question contains spoilers… view spoiler [as amazing as this book is it did in fact leave me hanging! Joanne Katzman I got the sense that Marianne was always loving and forgiving. She found a kind, caring husband and I expect that she is going to be okay. She's very …more I got the sense that Marianne was always loving and forgiving. She's very nurturing to animals, We Were the Mulvaneys I would expect her to be nurturing to her children as well. This question contains spoilers… view spoiler [i want to know thw theme of the novel? Janet Rodriguez This answer contains spoilers… view spoiler [ The novel is a thinly-veiled retelling of Shakespeare's King Lear, the modern downfall of a family, the name forever tarnished because of the "king's" …more The novel is a thinly-veiled retelling of Shakespeare's King Lear, the modern downfall of a family, the name forever tarnished because of the "king's" bad decisions and pride. Oates adds her own flavor, having grown We Were the Mulvaneys in upstate New We Were the Mulvaneys, familiar with its political climate in the 's. See all 5 questions We Were the Mulvaneys We Were the Mulvaneys…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of We Were the Mulvaneys. May 02, Paul Bryant rated it liked it Shelves: novels. Six months after the death of Joyce Carol Oates a couple of her fans will visit her grave. Just underneath the keening mournful almost-Canadian wind as they stand by the graveside they will hear to their consternation a little tiptappy scratching noise. From underground. They will run run run to get the caretaker who will get the police who will get the bigger police. They'll all hear the sound. Tippytappy, scritchscratch. They'll hum and haw, and then they'll exhume the body. When they crack op Six months after the death of Joyce Carol Oates a couple of her fans will visit her grave. When they crack open the coffin next to JCO's earthly remains they'll find a neat page typescript of the new novel. It will be Joyce's 53rd. Oh, what's that you say? Her 54th - they found another one in the boot of a car she used to drive - and it's another masterpiece you say? Having said all that - is she any good? Well, alas for you authors who cough out one page novel every ten years, the answer is yes, sometimes, but "We Were the Mulvaneys" isn't the one to convince anybody - that would be "What I Lived For" which is a stone masterpiece. This whopping Mulvaney book promises much and for the first pages is compulsive, propulsive, and then like a toy balloon you blew up and tried to tie but your fingers fumbled and whoosshhhh it zaps away from you and spirals and biffs and thwaps into every wall and every corner of the room and finally peters out and dies into someone's cup of coffee, this novel just seems to get away from its author - she writes and writes and writes about the four Mulvaney kids and their two parents and in the end it was all very herkyjerky and exactly where JCO should have shone her fearless psychological searchlight was exactly where she appeared to shy away from - i. Now why would he do such a thing? And why would his good Christian-hearted wife put up with him doing such a thing, and actually go along with it and not see her daughter when it broke her heart? JCO loves to get into her character's heads and does so very well, but here - right here at the We Were the Mulvaneys spot of the whole book, the axis around which the fate of the family revolved, the point at which their ascent turns to descent - here is where she backs off, never an explanation of this central appalling cruelty. This may be very intentional but if so the intention was lost on me. And because of this, as I realised we were never going to explore this painful area, and that the novel, like its characters, was We Were the Mulvaneys to tippytoe away from it, I got mardy and disgruntled and I began not to care. When I got to the five page description of the final illness of Muffin the cat a cat, not a cool person with catlike powers my We Were the Mulvaneys of gruntle was turning into outright mockery. Five pages about this cat's kidney problems and no pages about why the father can't stand to look at his daughter after she's raped. I think Joyce lost the plot. Four stars for pages ish, We Were the Mulvaneys generous stars for pages ish to View all 90 comments. May 26, Glenn Sumi rated it really liked it. It takes We Were the Mulvaneys while for the book to find its way. So many character introductions! So many coy digressions! Do we really need to know about all the family nicknames and pets?! There are several biblical and mythical allusions; and much of the book has the inexorable feel of a Greek Tragedy. The idea of Darwinian evolution is also a big theme. And We Were the Mulvaneys book can also be read, quite convincingly, as one of those Death of the American Dream novels. When institutions fail people, you're left with the family unit. Not all We Were the Mulvaneys prose is so insightful. This passage, for instance, cries out for tightening and clarity: There were those times when the telephone rang, and she We Were the Mulvaneys not locate a phone amid the clutter. She rushed, she stumbled — for what if it was Michael Sr. I read that last run-on sentence four times before comprehending it. And in the same paragraph! And when one of the most wounded characters finds herself in a sanctuary view spoiler [for wounded animals who have been given a second chance at life hide spoiler ]the symbolism might seem obvious, but after pages it feels earned. A lesser writer would have offered up sentimentality, cheesy redemption monologues and copious tears. Oates is after something more complex, more textured, and ultimately more real. We might think we know who the Mulvaneys are, but they can, like humans everywhere, still surprise us. View all 29 comments. Apr 22, Perry rated it it was ok. Who doesn't desire his father's death? A first point would be that Oates could have shown what she wanted to show--the disintegration of a seemingly typical family--in three-hundred pages instead of four-hundred and fifty plus. Besides its verbosity, the chief problem I had with the novel was that Oates kept trying to make the point that th Who doesn't desire his father's death? Besides its verbosity, the chief problem We Were the Mulvaneys had with the novel was that Oates We Were the Mulvaneys trying to make the point that the family's downfall was not We Were the Mulvaneys to "any one person's fault. Yet, to assign no fault to the parents defies reason and truth when the father turned out to be a pathetic jackass for his absolute indifference or at least reckless cruelty to his daughter and the mother a complicit rag-a-muffin, recklessly indifferent to her baby girl. It was just too much for me to believe the dad's unexplained refusal to have anything to do with his daughter after the rape, and the mom's role in casting the daughter out into the We Were the Mulvaneys on dad's behalf, as if the rape was their daughter's fault.
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