Where Are You Going, Where Hav
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e You Been?
Joyce Carol Oates was born in 1938 in Lockport, New York. She started writing very young and that the age of fifteen she submitted her first novel, but it was rejected for being “too dark”. This style of writing is common on many of her works including “e You Been?&# ....
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.... about a fair amount of mystery and speculation. (Joyce Carol Oates, Raines)
Connie, a fifteen year old girl who likes to go off and have fun with her friends, meet and dream about boys and the idea of a perfect life and relationship is the main target of a clever malicious stalker, a man who intends to kidnap, rape and murder her. “She (Connie) is caught between her roles as a daughter, friend, sister, and object of sexual desire uncertain of which one represents the real her.” ....
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Word count: 1496
Page count: 6 (approximately 250 words per page)
