Alissa's review
Black Water (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)
by Joyce Carol Oates
Alissa's review
Black Water (Contemporary Fiction, Plume) by Joyce Carol Oates
Alissa's review
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Written in short, vignette-style chapters, Oates reveals the life of Kelly Kelleher while she is drowning. One advantage of the close, third-person perspective Oates chose, is that it alters between what Kelly thinks might happen and what is actually happening which creates an eerie uncertainty to the events taking place. Oates uses refrain to shift the reader back to the accident or the events leading up to the accident.
