I'll Take You There (novel)

I'll Take You There (novel)

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author = Joyce Carol Oates
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Romance novel
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release_date = 2002
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media_type = Print (Paperback)
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"I'll Take You There" is a 2002 novel by Joyce Carol Oates.

Plot summary

A smart student, Anellia, joins a sorority in Syracuse, New York. Soon enough, she crumbles under the exorbitant debt she runs up. Finally, she pretends she indulges in unrational behaviour to get out of the sorority and move into affordable accommodation elsewhere on campus.

She falls for a black student who audits her philosophy lectures. After she stalks him for a while, they sleep together. Eventually, she learns that he is married and has left his wife and children.

She drives to Crescent, Utah to meet her dying father. After his death, he bequeaths his money to her; she decides to give it to his mistress. However, she buries him to Strykersville, New York, as he requested.

Characters

*Anellia, the protagonist; an undergraduate student.
*Dietrich, Fritz, Hendrick, her brothers.
*Ida, her dead mother.
*Erich, the father. He works in the West of the United States.
*Mrs Agnes Thayer, the housekeeper at the sorority. She is British; her sister is from Leeds.
*Vernor Matheius, her black lover.
*Hildie Pomeroy, her father's mistress.

Allusions to other works

*The novel starts with an epitaph from Ludwig Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations".
*Philosophy is mentioned with Spinoza, Nietzsche, Hegel, Descartes, David Hume, Plato, Aristotle, Saint Augustine, Francis Bacon, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Wittgenstein, Cassirer, Thomas Aquinas, Leibnitz, Locke, Democritus, Bertrand Russell, and Pascal.
*Literature is mentioned with James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Walter Scott, Edward Gibbon, William Shakespeare, and Milton's "Paradise Lost".
*Music is mentioned with Liszt and Schopenhauer.
*Painting is mentioned with Edward Hopper and Salvador Dali.

Allusions to actual history

*The Civil Rights Movement is mentioned through the character of Vernor Matheius.

External links

* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E3D6163AF933A15753C1A9649C8B63&scp=2&sq=%22i%27ll%20take%20you%20there%22%20%22joyce%20carol%20oates%22&st=cse New York Times review]


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