We were the Mulvaneys /
Joyce Carol Oates.
- New York. N.Y., U.S.A. : Dutton, c1996.
- viii, 454 p. ; 24 cm.
"A William Abrahams book."
A family of six disintegrates after a daughter is raped by a high-school student. It happens to the wealthy Mulvaneys in upstate New York. The disgrace--there is some question if it was rape--sends the father to drink and financial ruin, the girl leaves home, the others follow. By the author of What I Lived For.