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Black Dahlia & White Rose, stories, Joyce Carol Oates

Label
Black Dahlia & White Rose, stories, Joyce Carol Oates
Language
eng
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Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
Main title
Black Dahlia & White Rose
Medium
electronic resource
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Oclc number
815445573
Responsibility statement
Joyce Carol Oates
Sub title
stories
Summary
From the title story, which maps the friendship between two beautiful and mysteriously doomed young women in 1940s Los Angeles - Elizabeth Short, known as the 'Black Dahlia,' victim of a long-unsolved and particularly brutal murder, and her roommate Norma Jeane Baker, soon to become Marilyn Monroe, to the tale of the wife of a well-to-do businessman who is ravished by, and elopes with, a lover who is a hyena, these stories explore the commingling of sexual love and violence and the tumult of family life
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resource.variantTitle
Black Dahlia and White Rose
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