Because it is bitter, and because it is my heart

Joyce Carol Oates

earliest edition we have, 1990 Picador, 1992 404 pages

Joyce Carol Oates adds to her extraordinary body of work with this stunning novel of violence and love. At the heart of the story are two people, Iris Courtney, who is white, and handsome Jinx Fairchild, the black basketball player who, in protecting Iris, kills a white man. Iris is the only witness to the crime. The two of them are growing up in the early 1950s in a New York industrial town where racial boundaries...

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Because it is bitter, and because it is my heart edition · 1992 · Picador · 404 pages
Because it is bitter, and because it is my heart edition · 1991 · Plume · 405 pages
Because it is bitter, and because it is my heart. edition · 1991 · Macmillan London · 416 pages
Because it is bitter, and because it is my heart edition · 1990 · Dutton · 405 pages

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