Little Bird of Heaven: A Novel

Joyce Carol Oates

Harper Collins, Sep 15, 2009 - Fiction - 448 pages

Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates is a riveting story of love violently lost and found in late 20th century America. In this novel, Oates returns to the Buffalo, New York, region to brilliantly explore the dangerous intersections of romance and eroticism, guilt and obsession, desire and murder. Little Bird of Heaven, a soaring work by the New York Times bestselling author and a nominee for the 2009 Man Booker Prize—one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards—is as powerful and unforgettable as Joyce Carol Oates’s previous acclaimed novels The Gravedigger’s Daughter and We Were the Mulvaneys.

Contents

• Section 1: 3
• Section 2: 8
• Section 3: 14
• Section 4: 15
• Section 5: 19
• Section 6: 29
• Section 7: 48
• Section 8: 63
• Section 9: 69
• Section 10: 76
• Section 11: 86
• Section 12: 97
• Section 13: 110
• Section 14: 134
• Section 15: 153
• Section 16: 158
• Section 17: 172
• Section 18: 178
• Section 19: 180
• Section 20: 183
• Section 21: 189
• Section 22: 209
• Section 23: 212
• Section 24: 240
• Section 25: 245
• Section 26: 249
• Section 27: 259
• Section 28: 268
• Section 29: 272
• Section 30: 279
• Section 31: 284
• Section 32: 291
• Section 33: 301
• Section 34: 306
• Section 35: 318
• Section 36: 322
• Section 37: 325
• Section 38: 328
• Section 39: 335
• Section 40: 337
• Section 41: 343
• Section 42: 352
• Section 43: 355
• Section 44: 359
• Section 45: 365
• Section 46: 373
• Section 47: 387
• Section 48: 418

About the author

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Little Bird of Heaven: A Novel
• Author: Joyce Carol Oates
• Publisher: Harper Collins, 2009
• ISBN: 0061959693, 9780061959691
• Length: 448 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Crime; Fiction / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural; Fiction / Romance / Suspense; Fiction / Small Town & Rural