About “You must remember this”
Set in an industrial, working-class town in upstate New York, the novel chronicles the marriage of parents Lyle and Hannah, the political aspirations of their son Warren, and the obsessive relationship between 15-year-old Enid Maria and her uncle Felix, a professional boxer twice her age. The story explores the tension between societal conformity and personal desire, focusing on how family members navigate the boundaries between the permissible and the forbidden in the 1950s.
Praise for “You must remember this”
“Ms. Oates has, if anything, sharpened her feel for gritty urban settings and the passions and despairs that flame up there. The inner voice of adolescence is convincingly intense—it plays effectively against the raging and choked-down voices of adulthood.”
Book details
- Published
- 1987
- Latest edition
- 1987 · ISBN 9780452280199
- ISBN
- 9780452280199
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