Because it is bitter, and because it is my heart
By: Joyce Carol Oates.
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
Subjects: Fiction
Description: Iris Courtney, a young white woman living in upstate New York in the decade prior to the civil rights movement, begins a clandestine relationship with Jinx Fairchild, a black man who had defended her in a fatal street fight with a white man.
Notes: "A William Abrahams book."