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    <body><![CDATA[Powerfully written. Joyce Carol Oates has a fantastic writing style--I can't quite place it, but it is so fluid and organic. And she captures the painful, awkward eagerness of Monica's thoughts so well. Meanwhile Sheila is one of those hypnotically distinctive characters, cruel and beautifully selfi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51736143">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This well-written but difficult to follow story of obsession involves a simple plot about the acrid complexities of attraction and the sweet aspects of repulsion. While the characters and settings in the book are realistic, the plot smacks of the gothic, and reminds one of the obsessive characters i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12613472">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Too weird. Creepy relationship between two women--an artist and a teacher and all their secrets, although I love Joyce Carol Oates; read Black Water or We Were the Mulvaneys or Because it is Bitter and Because it is my Heart]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I got real interested in the writings of joyce carol oates after reading this book.  She really knows how to explore private lives of ordinary people.The story itself was kind of weird, but I like her writing style.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A fascinating study of intense friendship between a mercurial, eccentric artist and her at first glance more conventional school teacher friend. The women are well drawn, complex and believable characters, and the book is wonderfully written with a dark, almost gothic sensibility and an edge of mena...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20278317">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Two women develop an unhealthily passionate friendship that blurs into romantic obsession?  As an alum of a women's college, I can totally relate.<br/><br/>My woman JCO fully captures that gray area between friendship and love between two women, an area that is more often than not left unexpressed...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Harrowing story about the relationship between an unbridled, eccentric artist and an emotionally scarred teacher. Beautifully navigates the depths and trauma of life and human psychology, without relying on any shock-value event.]]></body>
    
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