A garden of Earthly delights

Auteur(s) Oates, Joyce Carol (1938-...)
Titre(s) A garden of Earthly delights [Livres] / Joyce Carol Oates.
Editeur(s) The Modern Library ; New York, 01/01/06.
Résumé In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard existence of violence and poverty, determined not to repeat her mother's life, Clara struggles for independence by way of her relationships with four very different men: her father, a family man turned itinerant laborer, smoldering with resentment; the mysterious Lowry, who rescues Clara as a teenager and offers her the possibility of love...