A Beginner’s Guide to Reading Joyce Carol Oates

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  • The Best American Essays of the Century (The Best American Series)

    • UPC: 046442155878
    • ASIN: 0618155872
    • ISBN: 0618155872
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America’s tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group of works that are both intimate and important, essays that move from personal experience to la... [Read More]

  • A Fair Maiden: A Novel

    • ASIN: B003K15INA
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • Them (Modern Library)

    • ASIN: 0345484401
    • ISBN: 0345484401
    • Brand: Modern Library
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

    “If the phrase ‘woman of letters’ existed, [Joyce Carol Oates] would be, foremost in this country, entitled to it.”—John Updike, The New YorkerAs powerful and relevant today as it was on its initial publication, them chronicles the tumultuous lives of a family living on the edge of ruin in the Detroit slums, from the 1930s to the 1967 ra... [Read More]

  • The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

    • ASIN: 0199744394
    • ISBN: 0199744394
    • Brand: Oxford University Press USA
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of nearly sixty tales that combines classic works with many "different, unexpected" gems, and that invites readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Some selections simply can't be ... [Read More]

  • My Life as a Rat: A Novel

    • ASIN: B07FSQSWCX
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    “A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant.  You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child who is theirs?”  --Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a RatWhich should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one’s family ev... [Read More]

  • Blonde: A Novel

    • ASIN: B01N979PNC
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    In this ambitious book, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker—the child, the woman, the fated celebrity and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In a voice startling, intimate, and rich, Norma Jeane tells her own story, that of an emblematic American artist—intensely ... [Read More]

  • Black Water

    • ASIN: 0452269865
    • ISBN: 9780452269866
    • Manufacturer: Plume

    The Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling novel We Were the Mulvaneys “Taut, powerfully imagined and beautifully written, Black Water ranks with the best of Joyce Carol Oates’s already long list of distinguished achievements. It can be read in a single afternoon, but, like every good book, it continues... [Read More]

  • A Widow's Story: A Memoir

    • ASIN: 0062020501
    • ISBN: 9780062020505
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    Unlike anything Joyce Carol Oates has written before, A Widow’s Story is the universally acclaimed author’s poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of Raymond Smith, her husband of forty-six years, and its wrenching, surprising aftermath. A recent recipient of National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, Oa... [Read More]

  • Blonde: A Novel

    • ASIN: 006093493X
    • ISBN: 006093493X
    • Manufacturer: HarpPeren

    One of America’s most acclaimed novelists boldly re-imagines one of America’s most enduring icons in Blonde—the National Book Award-nominated bestseller by Joyce Carol Oates. The legend of Marilyn Monroe—aka Norma Jeane Baker—comes provocatively alive in this powerful tale of Hollywood myth and heartbreaking reality. Marilyn Monroe lives... [Read More]

  • We Were the Mulvaneys (Oprah's Book Club)

    • ASIN: 0452282829
    • ISBN: 0452282829
    • Manufacturer: Plume

  • Zombie: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0061778915
    • ISBN: 0061778915
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    Meet Quentin P. He is a problem for his professor father and his loving mother, though of course they do not believe the charge (sexual molestation of a minor) that got him in that bit of trouble. He is a challenge for his court-appointed psychiatrist, who nonetheless is encouraged by the increasingly affirmative quality of his dreams and his ... [Read More]

  • 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?': Joyce Carol Oates (Women Writers: Texts and Contexts)

    • ASIN: 0813521351
    • ISBN: 0813521351
    • Brand: Brand: Rutgers University Press
    • Manufacturer: Rutgers University Press

    Joyce Carol Oates’s prize-winning story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” takes up troubling subjects that continue to occupy her in her fiction: the romantic longings and limited options of adolescent women; the tensions between mothers and daughters; the sexual victimization of women; and the American obsession with violence.  In... [Read More]

  • On Boxing

    • ASIN: 0060874503
    • ISBN: 0060874503
    • Brand: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    A reissue of bestselling, award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates' classic collection of essays on boxing.

  • The Falls: A Novel (P.S.)

    • ASIN: 0060722290
    • ISBN: 0060722290
    • Brand: Oates, Joyce Carol
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself into the roaring waters of Niagara Falls. Ariah, "the Widow Bride of the Falls," begins a relentless seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting for his body to be found. At her side is confirmed bachelor and pillar of the community Dirk Burnaby, who is unexpe... [Read More]

  • High Lonesome: Stories 1966-2006

    • ASIN: 0060501197
    • ISBN: 9780060501198
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    An unprecedented collection of the best of Joyce Carol Oates's short stories combined with eleven new storiesNo other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates, and High Lonesome: Selected Stories, 1966-2006 gathers stories from Oates's seminal collections, including The Wheel of Love (1970), Marriages and Infidelities (1972), and... [Read More]

  • Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories (The Lottery / The Haunting of Hill House / We Have Always Lived in the Castle)

    • ASIN: 1598530720
    • ISBN: 1598530720
    • Brand: Library of America
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

    In one volume: The Haunting of Hill House, The Lottery, and much more, including We Have Always Lived in the Castle, now a major motion picture starring Taissa Farmiga and Sebastian Stan"The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable," writes A. M. Homes. "It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny... [Read More]

  • Hazards of Time Travel: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0062319590
    • ISBN: 0062319590
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates “Time travel” — and its hazards—are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (fut... [Read More]

  • Beautiful Days: Stories

    • ASIN: 0062795791
    • ISBN: 0062795791
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize–winning “Undocumented Alien”The diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explore the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves, who assert their independence in ... [Read More]

  • Missing Mom: A Novel (P.S.)

    • ASIN: 0060816228
    • ISBN: 0060816228
    • Brand: Oates, Joyce Carol
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    Nikki Eaton, single, thirty-one, sexually liberated, and economically self-supporting, has never particularly thought of herself as a daughter. Yet, following the unexpected loss of her mother, she undergoes a remarkable transformation during a tumultuous year that brings stunning horror, sorrow, illumination, wisdom, and even—from an unexpec... [Read More]

  • Middle Age: A Romance

    • ASIN: B000FC12TQ
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books

    In Salthill-on-Hudson, a half-hour train ride from Manhattan, everyone is rich, beautiful, and -- though they look much younger -- middle-aged. But when Adam Berendt, a charismatic, mysterious sculptor, dies suddenly in a brash act of heroism, shock waves rock the town. But who was Adam Berendt? Was he in fact a hero, or someone more flawed and hum... [Read More]

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