My sister, my love
Subtitle: the intimate story of Skyler Rampike
By: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 562
ISBN-13: 9781607515210
Subjects: Girls; Fiction; Crimes against; Figure skaters; Brothers and sisters; Sisters; Death; Murder victims' families; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Mass media and crime
Description: The unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an infamous American family. A decade ago the Rampikes were destroyed by the murder of Skyler's six-year-old ice-skating champion sister, Bliss, and the media scrutiny that followed. Part investigation into the unsolved murder; part elegy for the lost Bliss and for Skyler's own lost childhood; and part corrosively funny expose of the pretensions of upper-middle-class American suburbia, this captivating novel explores with unexpected sympathy and subtlety the intimate lives of those who dwell in Tabloid Hell.
Table of contents: title: Red-ink heart; title: "Happiest little girl on earth"; title: Little Miss Ice Princess; title: Posthumous; title: And after; title: Pilgrimage to hell, and back.