![]() ![]() Ray has invited "The Senator" about whom Kelly wrote her graduate thesis. She is planning to stay with them for the weekend. The book opens with Elizabeth Anne "Kelly" Kelleher in a car that is plunging into mucky, swampy, "black water." The reader learns of the events that led up to the accident in flashbacks as the protagonist is drowning: Kelly Kelleher attends a Fourth of July party hosted by her friend Buffy St. The novella was a 1993 Pulitzer Prize finalist for fiction. senator Ted Kennedy crashed a car and caused the death by drowning of passenger Mary Jo Kopechne. ![]() It is a roman à clef based on the Chappaquiddick incident, in which U.S. Black Water is a 1992 novella by the American writer and professor Joyce Carol Oates. ![]()
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