Black Water - Hardcover

Oates, Joyce Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525934553 ISBN 13: 9780525934554

Publisher: Dutton, 1992

Synopsis

Flattered by the attentions of a senator she has met at a Fourth of July beach party on Grayling Island, Kelly Kelleher accepts a ride from him, taking a first step toward her final confrontation with death. 50,000 first printing. Tour. BOMC.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Based on National Book Award-winner Joyce Carol Oates' novella about the Chappaquiddick scandal, this tragic and beautiful opera enthralls as a handsome senator uses his power to enchant, seduce, and carelessly destroy. Composed by John Duffy with libretto by Joyce Carol Oates. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring: David Lee Brewer as Lucius Smith Reid Bruton as Roy Annick Stephanie Buckley as Buffy St. John Karen Burlingame as Kelly Kelleher Kimberly Graham as Jenny O'Brien Linda Kerns as Michelle Ravel Erin Langston as Sarah O'Connor Patrick Mason as The Senator John Savarese as Dwight Murphy Rob Shacklett as Graeme Winthrop Original music performed by Alan Johnson on the piano, Linda Wang on the violin, and Stanley Sharp on the cello. Directed by Gordon Hunt. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in July of 1998.

About the Author:

In addition to many prize-winning and bestselling novels, including We Were the Mulvaneys, Black Water, Because It Is Bitter and Because It Is My Heart, and Broke Heart Blues, Joyce Carol Oates is the author of a number of works of gothic fiction including Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque, a World Fantasy Award nominee; and Zombie, winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Horror Novel, awarded by the Horror Writers' Association. In 1994, Oates received the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award in Horror Fiction. She is the editor of American Gothic Tales. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0525934553
• ISBN 13: 9780525934554
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 154