false<![CDATA[My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike]]>22543527<i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Falls</i>, <i>Blonde</i>, and <i>We Were the Mulvaneys</i>, Joyce Carol Oates returns with a dark, wry, satirical tale - inspired by an unsolved American true-crime mystery.
"Dysfunctional families are all alike. Ditto 'survivors.'"
So begins 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 exposé 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.
Likely to be Joyce Carol Oates's most controversial novel to date, as well as her most boldly satirical, this unconventional work of fiction is sure to be recognized as a classic exploration of the tragic interface between private life and the perilous life of "celebrity." In <i>My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike</i>, the incomparable Oates once again mines the depths of the sinister yet comic malaise at the heart of our contemporary culture.2260234172008My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampiketotal:465|5:50|4:155|3:148|2:69|1:43|465149589416056falsefalseTue Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008Tue Jun 17 07:50:50 -0700 2008Tue Jun 24 08:03:23 -0700 2008
Blonde is really at the tippity top, but I don't really consider that a "book" so much as a fundamental component of life that everyone has to experience to become wholly human.) Somebody needs to dispatch a...more...]]>
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31falsefalseThu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009Mon Jan 05 06:42:18 -0800 2009Tue Jan 06 13:06:48 -0800 2009 (Joyce Carol Oates will do that to you.)
My Sister, My Love, her take on the JonBenet Ramsey family, is immense -- both in size and scope. Part satire, part tragedy, all meta, the book is less about the murder of pint-sized ice-skating sensation Bliss...more...]]>
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Blonde – and it blew me away. I loved it and was so impressed by it. This novel reminds me of Blonde in that they both deal with celebrity life and death – Blonde with Marilyn Monroe, My Sister My love with JonBenet Ramsay – and also, in the ...more...]]>
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My Sister, My Love is JonBenet Ramsey's story, told by Burke Ramsey, thinly disguised as 'Skyler Rampike' with the author herself lurking around the edges of the narrative. If the solution in the book is correct, then 5 stars for the...more...]]>
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Joyce Carol Oates, author of 37 novels, gets some material for her fictional accounts from the dark and twisted true tales of real life. And "My Sister, My Love" is no exception.
The lengthy tale, told from ...more...]]>
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Much like the average American hooked on tabloids, I got totally sucked into the novel, even though I thought that its undisguised resemblance to the JonBenet Ramsey case did the novel a tremendous disservice.