Le Livre de Poche: Nous Étions Les Mulvaney (Other)

from ElaineRuss

This was an excellent book although I did find it very unsettling and upsetting. Several times at the beginning, I actually had to put it down and step away for a while to let my mind settle. It is beautifully written and the story is fantastically told and I believe the crumbling of the family u...

from novelcommentary

The Mulvaneys are a prosperous all American family, living in upper New York. Their sprawling farm is filled with pets and antiques collected by Corrine, the happily married mother of four. Her husband's roofing company is doing well as are her four children. Mike Jr. the football star, Patrick, ...

from bachaney

Joyce Carol Oates' "We Were the Mulvaneys" follows the fallout in the lives of the Mulvaney family of upstate New York as the result of one fateful night. February 14, 1976--the Mulvaney's only daughter, Marianne, attends the prom at the local high school and high on her popularity makes a mistak...

from fuzzy_patters

We were the Mulvaneys is about a family living in the Chatauqua Valley of New York state and the events that led to the unravelling of that family. The story opens with a first person narrator, Judd, the youngest son of the family, telling the story of how his family used to be a very prominent f...

from LynleyS

The Mulvaneys are painted in such vivid detail that it's hard to believe this isn't autobiography. The details of happy, and then not so happy, family life are so well-drawn that descriptions overwhelm the action, and this did slow the narrative down to the point where my interest was waning by t...