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Originally published in 1990, I Lock My Door Upon Myself is the story of Calla, a beautiful, flame-haired, willful girl living in rural upstate New York in the early years of the 20th century. At 17, Calla is married off to a coarse local farmer. Her chance encounter with an itinerant black water-dowser leads to a passionate, obsessive, and doomed love affair, from which she emerges a celibate recluse.
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I Lock My Door Upon Myself, Joyce Carol Oates
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- Released
- 1990
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Publisher
- New York : Ecco Press
- Released
- 1990
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 98
- ISBN10
- 0880012609
- ISBN13
- 9780880012607
- Series
- Original title
- I lock my door upon myself
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- 3.85 out of 5
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- Originally published in 1990, I Lock My Door Upon Myself is the story of Calla, a beautiful, flame-haired, willful girl living in rural upstate New York in the early years of the 20th century. At 17, Calla is married off to a coarse local farmer. Her chance encounter with an itinerant black water-dowser leads to a passionate, obsessive, and doomed love affair, from which she emerges a celibate recluse.