The Sacrifice. Joyce Carol Oates

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Название The Sacrifice
Автор произведения Joyce Carol Oates
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      Fourth Estate

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      First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate in 2015

      First published in the United States by Ecco in 2015

      Copyright © The Ontario Review 2015

      Joyce Carol Oates asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      Cover photograph © Nagib El Desouky / Arcangel Images.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008114862

      Ebook Edition © January 2015 ISBN: 9780008114879

      Version: 2015-10-13

       Dedication

       for Richard Levao

       and for Charlie Gross

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       The Investigator

       Angel of Wrath

       The Good Neighbor

       The Lucky Man

       The Stepdaughter

       The Mission

       The Temptation

       The Seduction

       The Crusade

       “Nazi-Racist Swine”

       “Reassigned”

       The Good Son

       The Twins

       Safe House

       “Yelow Hair”

       The Prize

       The Crusade

       The Martyr

       The Broken Doll

       The Convert

       The Sisters

       “Still Alive”

       Ten-Thousand-Man March

       Afterword

       Acknowledgements

       Novels by Joyce Carol Oates

       About the Publisher

       The Mother

      OCTOBER 6, 1987

       PASCAYNE, NEW JERSEY

      Seen my girl? My baby?

      She came like a procession of voices though she was but a singular voice. She came along Camden Avenue in the Red Rock neighborhood of inner-city Pascayne, twelve tight-compressed blocks between the New Jersey Turnpike and the Passaic River. In the sinister shadow of the