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Selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the most notable books of 1991, Joyce Carol Oates's The Rise of Life on Earth is a memorable portrait of one of the "insulted and injured" of American society. Set in the underside of working-class Detroit of the '60s and '70s, thisshort, lyric novel sketches Kathleen Hennessy's violent childhood-shattered by a broken home, child-beating, and murder-and follows herinto her early adult years as a hospital health-care worker. Overworked,underpaid, and quietly overzealous, Kathleen falls in love with a youngdoctor, whose exploitation of her sets the course of the remainder ofher life, in which her passivity masks a deep fury and secret resolve totake revenge.Oates, Joyce Carol is the author of 'Rise of Life on Earth', published 1992 under ISBN 9780811212137 and ISBN 0811212130.
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