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      Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart

      by Joyce Carol Oates
      Published
      May 1990
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      405
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      Iris Courtney, a young white woman living in upstate New York in the decade prior to the Civil rights movement, begins a clandestine relationship with Jinx Fairchild, a black man who had defended her in a fatal street fight with a white man

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      Mar 1991 Signet ISBN13 9780451172181 ISBN10 0451172183
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      Apr 1991 Plume ISBN13 9780452265813 ISBN10 0452265819
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      First Edition May 1990 Dutton ISBN13 9780525248606 ISBN10 0525248609
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