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What I Lived For: A Pulitzer Prize Finalist Drama of Financial Ruin and One Man's Moral Collapse

What I Lived For: A Novel

Penned By Joyce Carol Oates
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What I Lived For: A Pulitzer Prize Finalist Drama of Financial Ruin and One Man's Moral Collapse

What I Lived For: A Novel

Penned By Joyce Carol Oates
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The stunning, classic portrait of a powerful man's downward spiral to moral ruinJerome "Corky" Corcorn. A money-juggling wheeler dealer, rising politico, popular man's man, and successful womanizer. It is a Memorial Day weekend, and we are about to live with him, breathe with him, and sweat with him in a nonstop marathon of mounting desperation as he tries to keep his financial empire from unraveling, his love life from shredding, and his rebellious daughter from destroying both herself and him. Seldom in fiction has a man been brought so vividly to life in all his strength and weakness, hunger and ambition, carnality and corruption. Rarely has the complex web of American society been revealed so rivetingly. And never has one of today's supreme writers, Joyce Carol Oates, written a bolder and better novel than this mesmerizing masterpiece.

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Joyce Carol Oates is the author of several novels. Originally from the East Coast, they now live in the Midwest with family. In addition to writing, Joyce Carol Oates enjoys gardening, cooking, and reading way past bedtime. Their work often explores the complexities of everyday life and human relationships.

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