The sacrifice : a novel

Record details

ISBN: 0062401270
ISBN: 9780062401274
ISBN: 1481532782 (library ed.)
ISBN: 9781481532785 (library ed.)
ISBN: 1481532790
ISBN: 9781481532792
Physical Description: 9 audio discs (11 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
sound disc
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: [Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Audio, Inc. : Harper Audio, [2015]
Copyright: ℗2015

General Note:	Title from container. Duration: 11:00:00. Compact discs. "Tracks every 3 minutes for easy bookmarking"--Container.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Bahni Turpin, Sisi Aisha Johnson, Karole Foreman, and Adam Lazarre-White.
Summary, etc.:	When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanizes her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades. In this magisterial work of fiction, Joyce Carol Oates explores the uneasy fault lines in a racially troubled society. In such a tense, charged atmosphere, Oates reveals that there must always be a sacrifice--of innocence, truth, trust, and, ultimately, of lives. Unfolding in a succession of multiracial voices, in a community transfixed by this alleged crime and the spectacle unfolding around it, this profound novel exposes what--and who--the "sacrifice" actually is, and what consequences these kind of events hold for us all.