What I Lived For
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3.8 • 16 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
The stunning, classic portrait of a powerful man's downward spiral to moral ruin
Jerome "Corky" Corcorn. A money-juggling wheeler dealer, rising politico, popular man's man, and successful womanizer. It is a Memorial Day weekend, and we are about to live with him, breathe with him, and sweat with him in a nonstop marathon of mounting desperation as he tries to keep his financial empire from unraveling, his love life from shredding, and his rebellious daughter from destroying both herself and him. Seldom in fiction has a man been brought so vividly to life in all his strength and weakness, hunger and ambition, carnality and corruption. Rarely has the complex web of American society been revealed so rivetingly. And never has one of today's supreme writers, Joyce Carol Oates, written a bolder and better novel than this mesmerizing masterpiece.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Another big novel from the prolific Oates, this tale of a successful middle-aged real estate developer whose hidden past surges up to wreak havoc on his present was one of PW's best books for 1994 and a PEN/Faulkner nominee.
Customer Reviews
Compelling, crafted, fascinating!
Just finished reading and am going to go back and reread sections. The reader is taken inside Corky’s mind, so much so that I feel it was my own life. All of the realizations and discoveries he uncovers as he veers out of control through the tangles of his life… fascinating and rich language…best of all it’s a long novel so there is a lot to enjoy!