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I Lock My Door Upon Myself
I Lock My Door Upon Myself
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
This novella is the story of Calla, a beautiful, flame-haired, willful girl living in rural upstate New York in the early years of the 20th century. At 17, Calla is married off to a coarse local farmer. Her chance encounter with an itinerant black water-dowser leads to a passionate, obsessive, and doomed love affair, from which she emerges a cel...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780865381087
ISBN-10: 0865381089
Publication Date: 9/2002
Pages: 100
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Publisher: Ontario Review Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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If I'm not mistaken, this book was part of a series that used art as the inspiration for novellas. Anything by Joyce Carol Oates is awesome!


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