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Black Water

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Black Water

By: Joyce Carol Oates
Narrated by: Amanda Plummer
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Twenty-six-year-old Kelly Kelleher longs for something interesting to happen to her, so when she meets a senator and he invites her to his hotel room, she says yes. Even though the man is old enough to be her father and even though he has perhaps been drinking too heavily, saying yes is an exciting part of the adventure Kelly is finally going to have. However, after the senator's car crashes through a guardrail, it becomes clear that this man embodies a wholly different and more sinister type of danger, one much harder to contain than the horrible events that unfold as Kelly is left in the sinking car.

©1993 Joyce Carol Oates (P)1993 Phoenix Books, Inc.
Genre Fiction Psychological Fiction
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Found the narration very hard to listen to in the beginning but the story line was enough to keep me until the end, rating would be 3.5 stars if it were possible. While I had a feeling of how it would end I'm left feeling sad all the same. The book will sit with me for a while I think.

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