Broke Heart Blues

Joyce Carol Oates

earliest edition we have, 1999 Plume, 2000 369 pages

In the heat of a languid July, fresh from Las Vegas, John Reddy Heart drives into the quiet upstate town of Willowsville, New York. Eleven years old, piloting a traffic-stopping, salmon-colored Cadillac, he arrives with his stunning mother beside him, his grandfather and younger siblings in the backseat. His mother is Dahlia Heart, a blackjack dealer of dubious reputation who always dresses in white. She has come to...

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Broke Heart Blues edition · 2000 · Plume · 369 pages · 9780452280342
Broke Heart Blues paperback · 2000 · Virago Press Ltd · 512 pages · 9781860497704
Broke Heart Blues hardcover · 1999 · Dutton Adult · 369 pages
Broke Heart Blues hardcover · 1999 · Virago Press Ltd · 502 pages · 9781860496936

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