{"product_id":"9780452269866","title":"Black Water","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel from the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling novel \u003ci\u003eWe Were the Mulvaneys\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Taut, powerfully imagined and beautifully written, \u003ci\u003eBlack Water\u003c\/i\u003e ranks with the best of Joyce Carol Oates's already long list of distinguished achievements. It can be read in a single afternoon, but, like every good book, it continues to haunt us.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoyce Carol Oates has taken a shocking story that has become an American myth and, from it, has created a novel of electrifying power and illumination. Kelly Kelleher is an idealistic, twenty-six-year-old “good girl” when she meets the Senator at a Fourth of July party. In a brilliantly woven narrative, we enter her past and her present, her mind and her body as she is fatally attracted to this older man, this hero, this soon-to-be-lover. Kelly becomes the very embodiment of the vulnerable, romantic dreams of bright and brave women, drawn to the power that certain men command—at a party that takes on the quality of a surreal nightmare; in a tragic car ride that we hope against hope will not end as we know it must end. One of the acknowledged masters of American fiction, Joyce Carol Oates has written a bold tour de force that parts the black water to reveal the profoundest depths of human truth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064417075440,"sku":"9780452269866","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780452269866_p0.jpg?v=1763705753","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780452269866","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}