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What I lived for

A Philistine discovers a social conscience. He is Jerome Corcoran, a real estate millionaire and city councilman who lives for money, food and sex. On his way to work he comes across a suicide, a black woman who was a critic of city hall. Corcoran smells foul play and for once decides to do something about it. By the author of Foxfire.

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  • "Jerome Corcoran, Corky, a huit ans lorsque son père est assassiné sous ses yeux. Trente ans plus tard, Corky est l'exemple même de l'homme à qui tout sourit. Promoteur immobilier florissant, conseiller municipal à l'avenir politique prometteur, il laisse toujours de larges pourboires qui lui assurent une certaine renommée dans la ville de Union City. Bel appartement, les femmes lui tombent dans les bras.Mais il n'y en a qu'une qui compte, Thalia, la fille de son ex-femme. Elle a disparu et semble impliquée dans un scandale politico-financier des plus envahissants. Joyce Carol Oates parvient à se glisser admirablement dans la peau d'un homme, dans ses forces et ses faiblesses et bien sûr sa libido."
  • "At forty-two, Jerome Corcoran - "Corky" to his friends and associates - is by all appearances a successful real estate developer and broker, a city councilman with a promising future in local politics, a genuine ladies' man, and all-around great guy. His big house, fifteen-hundred-dollar suits, and the ridiculously large tips he hands out all over town reassure him that he's put plenty of distance between himself and the family history (which includes a murdered father and raving mad mother) he'd rather forget. Corky may think that his inauspicious beginnings on Irish Hill, one of Union City's shabbier neighborhoods, are now far behind him, but over the course of Memorial Day Weekend 1992, that precious illusion, along with several others, will be completely shattered."
  • "A Philistine discovers a social conscience. He is Jerome Corcoran, a real estate millionaire and city councilman who lives for money, food and sex. On his way to work he comes across a suicide, a black woman who was a critic of city hall. Corcoran smells foul play and for once decides to do something about it. By the author of Foxfire."
  • "A Philistine discovers a social conscience. He is Jerome Corcoran, a real estate millionaire and city councilman who lives for money, food and sex. On his way to work he comes across a suicide, a black woman who was a critic of city hall. Corcoran smells foul play and for once decides to do something about it. By the author of Foxfire."@en

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  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "Corky"
  • "Per cosa ho vissuto"@it
  • "Per cosa ho vissuto"
  • "Vad jag levde for"
  • "Wofür ich gelebt habe : Roman"
  • "What I lived for"
  • "What I lived for"@en
  • "Vad jag levde för : [roman]"@sv
  • "Corky : roman"
  • "Vad jag levde för"@sv
  • "Wofür ich gelebt habe Roman"
  • "Za kar sem živel"@sl
  • "Po to żyłem"@pl
  • "What I lived for : [a novel]"
  • "Po to żyłem"

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