Name: I'll Take You There
Rating: 2 (1 reviews)
ISBN: 9780007146451

Joyce Carol Oates

This is an intimate self-portrait of a young woman who comes of age in the most turbulent of American decades. Headstrong, passionate, occasionally obsessive, she is pitiless in exposing herself to her new life as she searches for a place in the world. Originally published: New York: Ecco, 2002.

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I'll Take You There

"Anellia" is a young student who, though gifted with a penetrating intelligence, is drastically inclined to obsession. Funny, mordant, and compulsive, she falls passionately in love with a brilliant yet elusive black philosophy student. But she is tested most severely by a figure out of her past she'd long believed dead. Astonishingly intimate and unsparing, and pitiless in exposing the follies of the time, I'll Take You There is a dramatic revelation of the risks—and curious rewards—of the obsessive personality as well as a testament to the stubborn strength of a certain type of contemporary female intellectual.

I'll Take You There A Novel

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