My sister, my love
Subtitle: the intimate story of Skylar Rampike
By: Joyce Carol Oates.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins; Ecco
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 562
ISBN-13: 9780061547485
Subjects: Girls -- Crimes against -- Fiction; Figure skaters -- Crimes against -- Fiction; Brothers and sisters -- Fiction; Sisters -- Death -- Fiction; Murder victims' families -- Fiction; Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Fiction; Mass media and crime -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.