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Babysitter / Joyce Carol Oates.

Babysitter / Joyce Carol Oates.
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F OATE
 Adult Fiction   Adult Lending . Available .  
Reserve Title Catalogue Record 700006709
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ISBN 9780593535172 (hardback)
Classification F OATE
Personal Name Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Title Babysitter / Joyce Carol Oates.
Edition First edition.
Production & Copyright Details New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
©2022
Physical Description 431 pages ; 25 cm.
Content type text
Note "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Summary Note "In the waning days of the 1970s, the lives of several residents of Detroit and its affluent white suburbs are drawn together following the disappearance of yet another child. Hannah, a wife and mother, begins an affair with a darkly charismatic stranger; Mikey, a young street hustler, finds himself on an unexpected mission to rectify injustice; and then there's the child serial killer known as Babysitter, an enigmatic and elusive figure at the periphery of elite Detroit, who has always been impossible to identify and immune to retribution. As Babysitter continues to strike-sending the city and its surroundings into pandemonium-these characters intersect, jeopardise one another, and are pushed to their limits. Suspenseful, brilliant, and wholly engrossing, Babysitter asks what we would risk for a chance at a new life, and how to protect all we cherish most. A scathing indictment of the corrupt politics, unexamined racism, and sexual predation in America, Babysitter is a thrilling novel and an absolute force"--
Subject - Topical Term Adultery -- Fiction
Kidnapping -- Fiction
Missing children -- Fiction
Nineteen seventies -- Fiction
Serial murderers -- Fiction
Subject - Geographic Name Detroit (Mich.) -- Fiction
Subject - Fiction Genre US & CAN thriller / suspense fiction
Subject - Genre Thrillers (Fiction)
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