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The author draws the reader into the secret life of Kathleen Hennessy, a nurse's aide who, as both martyr and avenging angel, is a memorable portrait of one of the 'insulted and injured' of American society. Set in the underside of working-class Detroit of the '60s and '70s, this short, lyric novel sketches Kathleen's violent childhood-shattered by a broken home, child-beating, and murder-and follows her into her early adult years as a hospital health-care worker. Overworked, underpaid, and quietly overzealous, Kathleen falls in love with a young doctor, whose exploitation of her sets the course of the remainder of her life, in which her passivity masks a deep fury and secret resolve to take revenge.
 
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Hardback Editions

April 1991 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0811211711Title: Rise of Life on Earth
Author(s): Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN: 0-8112-1171-1 / 978-0-8112-1171-0 (USA edition)
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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Paperback Editions

September 1992 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0811212130Title: The Rise of Life on Earth
Author(s): Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN: 0-8112-1213-0 / 978-0-8112-1213-7 (USA edition)
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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January 1991 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B001PBLXVITitle: the Rise of Life on Earth
Author(s): Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: New Directions
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