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In turn-of-the-century, upstate New York, a strange, beautiful child who wanders the countryside like a sleepwalker is married off to a coarse, much older farmer. Bitter and increasingly estranged, she falls in love with a tall, black, itinerant water diviner. When the doomed affair ends tragically, she withdraws completely.Oates, Joyce Carol is the author of 'I Lock My Door upon Myself', published 2002 under ISBN 9780865381087 and ISBN 0865381089.
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