Joyce Carol Oates books

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a widows story (2000)

Having lost my husband only a week -- only a week? -- ago, I have turned to several widows' memoirs in search of comfort, advice, and maybe even a little warning of the pitfalls of grief that await me. While I did find some of those things in this memoir, I also found a woman for whom I cannot fe...

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Little Bird of Heaven (2009)

Anche in questo romanzo l'autrice riesce a catturare fin dall'inizio l'attenzione del lettore e a tenere alta la tensione nel raccontare i fatti.La vicenda si dipana e scopre i suoi lati oscuri,chiarendo a poco a poco la vicenda e rispondendo alle domande solo nelle ultime pagine, in un continuo ...

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The Corn Maiden (2012)

Full disclosure: I only read half of this, the first three stories. I am returning it to the library because I am not in the mood for something so dark right now. I will probably borrow this again in the future and finish the rest of it. I've read some Joyce Carol Oates before- a few short storie...

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Bambini e altre malattie (2009)

This was recommended to me by a friend, but I'm not sure if my apathy toward it is the result of the book itself, or just maybe that it wasn't my cup of tea. The first piece, The Corn Maiden, is the longest part and the story of a little girl held captive by teenagers as part of a disturbing sacr...

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Uccellino del paradiso (2011)

Didn't quite finish...this book couldn't keep my attention. That's it! I'm off JCO. I thought I could take one more, but no no no more JCO.

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Ave del paraíso (2009)

Dysfunction JunctionJoyce Carol Oates is an excellent writer and does a great job pulling you into this story of a murdered woman and two families that fall apart. I think she shows just how complicated and destructive family relationships can be. What I think is most interesting is how Oates’ ...

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Little Bird of Heaven. Joyce Carol Oates (2000)

I honestly can't remember if this took over six months to read but I've lost track of time and haven't done a very good job updating my lists here! I do know that it seemed like this book stayed on my nightstand for quite some time. I initially picked it up at the end of my local library's book s...

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Cher époux (2009)

This is a good book. Not an amazing book, but a good one. Certain stories I wasn't as interested in, or found anti-climatic. I was intrigued by Magda Maria; the descriptions of this woman he was obsessed with, how she changed from being this glamorous, youthful looking woman to basically looki...

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Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2011)

2.5 really. I'm not sure what happened here. These stories weren't cohesive and many of them weren't particularly interesting if not outright boring. I had to force myself to keep going through sections. A few of the stories were actually quite good (Strip Poker, Bleeed, Vena Cava)---tense, dark...

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High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread (2014)

Joyce Carol Oates's short stories always leave me wanting more, and not in a good way. She is great at developing interesting characters, but just when it seems like something is going to happen, the story ends abruptly, leaving a million unanswered questions. I realize that this seems to be her ...

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We Were the Mulvaneys (1997)

Ci fu un momento di silenzio tra noi. Capivo che non dovevo parlare, dire una parola. Come avessimo vissuto così, a nostro agio l'uno con l'altro, per i quattordici anni in cui ci eravamo persi.We were the Mulvaneys è la storia della società americana che caratterizzava una certa epoca, ma prima ...

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Missing Mom (2006)

‘It was the fate of mothers, to remember. What nobody’s else would know or care about. That, when they are gone, goes with them.’ (p. 397)If you follow me, you’ve probably heard me mention Joyce Carol Oates a couple of times or more. She is one of my favorite authors. I’m not only impressed with ...

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Rape: A Love Story (2004)

Η Joyce Carol Oates, είναι μία από τις πιο διακεκριμένες Αμερικανίδες συγγραφείς, έχοντας αποσπάσει πληθώρα βραβείων στην διάρκεια της συγγραφικής της καριέρας. Ένα από τα βιβλία της, είναι και "Ο Βιασμός", ο οποίος επανακυκλοφόρησε σε νέα, συλλεκτική, οικονομική έκδοση, από τις εκδόσεις Μεταίχμι...

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After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away (2006)

Spoiler AlertA young adult book, "After the Wreck" is about Jenna, a teenage girl who is in an accident with her mother who is killed. Jenna feels, though she isn't sure, that she may be to blame. Jenna's life begins spiraling out of control"after the wreck" as her loneliness and guilt lead her t...

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Zombie (1996)

This book made me angry. I understand that Joyce Carol Oates writes books that make you feel like you need a shower, and I was cool with that. I expected it even. What I didn't expect was for this to be written like drivel. An excerpt."Twelve years old & in seventh grade & now I was wearing glass...

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My Heart Laid Bare (1999)

Finally returned to print in a beautiful paperback edition, a haunting gothic tale of a nineteenth-century immigrant family of confidence artists—a story of morality, duplicity, and retribution that explores the depths of human manipulation and vulnerabilityThe patriarch of the Licht family, Abra...

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The Falls (2005)

You can't help pitying the people who show up in the novels of Joyce Carol Oates. From the first page, you sense that they're going to be known to death, literally splayed by her insight. And before you realize it, she's done the same thing to us. For 40 years, she's coyly enticed us with the got...

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Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates (1990)

Twenty-five interviews share Oates' views on literature, the responsibility of the writer, major themes and influences in her work, and her approach to writing.

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Because it is Bitter, and Because it is My Heart (1991)

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.Joyce Carol Oates adds to her extraordinary body of work with this stunning novel of violence and love. At the heart of the story are two people, Iris Courtney, who is white, and handsome Jinx Fairchild, the black basketball player who, in prote...

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On Boxing (2006)

I am really pissed off, because I spent a long time writing a whole long review of this book but then this fucking website just spontaneously erased it.But whatever. It wasn't a great review by any means. I'll just write another, similarly mediocre one.Being as I'm a lady boxing enthusiast who li...

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The Gravedigger's Daughter (2007)

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)So what's the dark fear that lies in the inner heart of all erudite nerds? Namely this -- that no m...

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Middle Age: A Romance (2002)

In spite of my contrarian nature, sometimes I like to fit in. When a moved to Virginia eight years ago, I started to drink sweetened iced tea. We southerners call it ‘sweet tea.’ So now, here I am on GR and I seem to be surrounded by people reading and loving romance novels. I have never been a r...

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Blonde (2002)

Articolo pubblicato su: http://leanimesalve.wordpress.com/201..._Dacci un'occhiata! Grazie! :)Colibrì« ...ma tu continuavi ad essere bambina,sciocca come l'antichità, crudele come il futuro,e fra te e la tua bellezza posseduta dal poteresi mise tutta la stupidità e la crudeltà del presente. »Pier...

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Freaky Green Eyes (2005)

Freaky Green Eyes is a book with many things going on all at once. Franky, the main character, has to deal with her parents, and all of their family issues. Franky's parents say that they are getting along fine, that they will love each other forever and will never get a divorce. But her parents ...

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Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories (1992)

"These stories are not merely flashes in the pan; there's pay dirt here!" —DeWitt Henry, editor of Ploughshares

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The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 (2005)

There were a few standout stories here for me, but mostly this felt like a big pile of Same. Basically, Joyce Carol Oates likes dark stories of the American working class underbelly, heavy on on-the-lam grifters and skeevy predators. No big surprise there, I guess. But I was surprised at how s...

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The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982 (2007)

On New Year's Day 1973, Joyce Carol Oates began keeping a journal, which she maintains to this day. Already a well-established literary force by the age of thirty-four, Oates had written three books that had been named finalists for the National Book Award (in 1968, 1969, and 1972), and her novel...

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The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings (2005)

This collection is collated and introduced by Carson's sister and is mostly short stories. However, it also includes articles, poems, brief notes about writing and a detailed outline of her most famous novel, "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" (http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...). A few pieces ...

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Bellefleur (1991)

"The living and the dead. Braided together. Woven together. An immense tapestry taking in centuries."A little over 100 pages into this novel I stumbled across the above lines, and even though I had another 500+ pages to go, I instinctively sensed that I had discovered the key to this immense, ...

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American Appetites (1992)

Oh, how I love a compelling family tragedy! But this whole drama could have been avoided if the husband had just followed my advice--Dude, if you're going to pay for a young woman's abortion, and the young woman happens to be your wife's friend, and you are not--repeat ARE NOT having an affair wi...

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A Bloodsmoor Romance (1983)

This is a great novel that I'd only recommend selectively. It's long (752 pages) and written in a precious mid-1800s tea-party diction. It took me about a hundred pages just to realize that this wasn't merely a tour-de-force of stylistic mimicry, but also a parody of the style so subtle that it d...

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Expensive People (2006)

Oates's third novel, originally published in 1968, is the riveting story of a child murderer told by the killer himself. Nominated for a 1968 National Book Award, Expensive People is a stunning combination of social satire and gothic horror. Joyce Carol Oates' Wonderland Quartet comprises four r...

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Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway (2008)

Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Samuel Clemens ("Mark Twain"), Henry James, Ernest Hemingway—Joyce Carol Oates evokes each of these American literary icons in her newest work of prose fiction, poignantly and audaciously reinventing the climactic events of their lives. In subtly nuanced language...

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The Architecture of Fear (1987)

Original anthology collecting fourteen haunted house stories including a posthumous novella by Robert Aickman and shorter fictions by Gene Wolfe, Ramsey Campbell, Charles L. Grant, Karl Edward Wagner, Dean R. Koontz, Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Bishop, and others. Winner of the World Fantasy Award...

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Jack of Spades

Irina spoke hesitantly. By her tone I understood that our youngest daughter’s distress had something to do with me and that Irina was being cautious in bringing the subject up to me as if—absurdly, and unfairly—she feared my reaction. It is very annoying to me when members...

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Middle Age

She approached Roger shakily, smiling. As he was about to touch her gently, to ask how she was, Robin murmured with pitiless candor, “Morning sickness, Dad.” Teenaged rock music was being piped into the lobby, loud. Roger cupped a hand to his ear. “I—didn’t hear you, honey?” “You heard me, Dad. Y...

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New Jersey Noir (2011)

To write about crime is to focus upon American life in extremis: as if distilled, pure. The complex and overlapping worlds of criminal behavior and law enforcement, highly publicized criminal trials, the dissolving of the putative barrier between “business” and “crime”—a subculture of intense int...

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The Lost Landscape (2015)

(Jack Robinson for Vogue) “ALMOST PATHETICALLY SERIOUS”—so Vogue wrote of the thirty-two-year-old novelist whose photograph appeared in the August 15, 1970, issue of the magazine. The writer went on to note that the novelist, whose fourth novel, them, had received the National Book Award for 1970...

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Black Dahlia & White Rose: Stories

Never be alone. This was wise advice. The inmates use urinals in the yard—try not to look in that direction.” She looked, of course—she and her companion both, in a nervous and involuntary reflex—but there was no one at the long trough-like urinal a...

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Black Water

Inwardly skeptical. Observing this famous man shaking hands as he was, vigorously, delightedly, with that breathless air of having rushed hundreds of miles expressly for this purpose: shaking hands with you, and you, and you: standing a little apart, thinking, He's one of them, forever campaignin...

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In Rough Country (2010)

—FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, “HOMER’S CONTEST” In the brilliant and unsettling fragment “Homer’s Contest,” found among Nietzsche’s unpublished writings after his death in 1900, the philosopher returns to obsessive themes originally explored in his first book, The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Mu...

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Sourland (2010)

Let something of mine be taken from me! Let Father be returned to us. So the son David Rainey, thirteen years old, who prided himself on not-believing-in-God, prayed. 2. In the medical center whose higher floors were frequently shrouded in mist, in the men’s lavatory in the eighth-floor cardiac u...

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The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates (2007)

and even conventional on the one hand; and to be absolutely free, inventive, wild, unrestrained in the imagination. So that the two worlds appear incompatible. There is no point of contact…. But the unrestrained world is within the “normal” world, it is the normal world’s untold secret. During th...

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Wonderland (2011)

There is something terrifying about it. It floats upon a background of darkness, a universe of darkness, pinpricked by tiny dots of light. They are like stars. They are hardly more than suggestions of light. The balloon does not move but looks as if it might move, suddenly—if you were to lean dow...

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The Rescuer

Smells. And whenever I went out, and returned, the contrast between the outdoor air—(even the polluted “outdoor air” of Trenton, New Jersey)—was so extreme, I felt faint stepping into my brother’s apartment. Something has died here. Mice, rats in the walls. . . &...

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Rape

ON OCTOBER 11, 1996, Dromoor killed one of the rapists with two shots from his .45-caliber police service revolver. You learned this news from Teena. “The first of them. He’s dead.” Teena spoke dazedly. Her eyes burned with fever. The first of them. You would wonder if these were Dromoor’s words,...

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Mudwoman

Mudwoman’s Triumph. March 2003 Must ready yourself. Hurry! But there was no way she could ready herself for this. “I don’t wish to accuse anyone.” His name was Alexander Stirk. He was twenty years old....

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High Crime Area (2014)

Kicked in the womb so his poor young mother doubled over in pain. Nursing he tugged and tore at her breasts. Wailed through the night. Puked, shat. Refused to eat. No I am loving, I am mad with love. Of Mama. (Though fearful of Da.) Curling burrowing pushing his head into Mama’s arms, against Mam...

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The Sacrifice

Yes.” And, “Yes. That him.” “You are certain, Miss Frye? This officer—‘Jerold Zahn’?” As instructed by Byron Mudrick she spoke quietly and without hesitation. She was not emotional: not sullen, not angry, not resentful, not vindictive, not anxious and not fearful. She did not betray uncertainty, ...

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Patricide

Cast aside, Mudgirl survives by an accident of fate—or destiny. After her rescue, the well-meaning couple who adopt Mudgirl quarantine her poisonous history behind the barrier of their middle-class values, seemingly sealing it off forever. But the bulwark of the present proves surprisingly vulner...

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Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You

A TINK TALE: “BAILING OUT” There was no reason. There were many reasons. There came the razor blade between my fingers. There came the current like electricity through my arm—through my fingers—directing the blade into the soft, yielding flesh of the inside forearm. Why doesn’t matter. How requir...

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Give Me Your Heart

It began innocently: he was searching for his wife’s passport. The Chases were planning their first trip to Italy together. To celebrate their tenth anniversary. Leonard’s own much-worn passport was exactly where he always kept it, but Valerie’s les...

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Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror

The Child as a Gold Boat He is a boat sunk deep in the sea of dream, sailed by thin, faceless creatures, barely visible through the undulations of the waves. Leafed in gold, it resembles a model taken from a pharaoh’s tomb, carried far, and dropped into the salt ocean. See it drifting downwar...

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Evil Eye (2013)

I can’t intercede for you any longer. He left the Delt-Sig house at 1:20 a.m., which was later than he’d planned. Half the house lighted like some weird kind of lopsided birthday cake, which didn’t mean that all the guys were awake or fully conscious but only that scattere...

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I Am No One You Know (2004)

Such a man! She laughed shaking her head in wonderment: her luck he was crazy in love with her. So they were married. In quick succession she had his children who were beautiful like him, though lighter-skinned, the girl, the youngest, nearly as light as she, the mother. He’d warned her in the ea...

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Daddy Love

Get out, Son. Do as I say.It was a busy downtown street in Trenton—Sloan Avenue. Gideon was taken by surprise for he’d assumed that Daddy Love was driving back to Kittatinny Falls.Politely Daddy Love had declined Reverend Silk’s invitation to have a Sunday meal with him and his family. Daddy Love...

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The Accursed

that Josiah learned of at least one of the ways in which his sister and her seducer had cultivated their illicit relationship. On a chilly October morning when Josiah was walking in the jardin anglais behind Crosswicks, tormented by thoughts of where he might search next for Annabel, for all his ...

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A Fair Maiden

Why, Katya, thank you! You have saved my life, honey...She was excited and she was apprehensive and she was cunningly rehearsing what she would say when her mother asked who this Marcus C. Kidder was who'd been such a friend, who'd lent a stranger three hundred dollars. But her mother didn't call...

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A Garden of Earthly Delights (2003)

Swan?” Clara was working in the side garden and it occurred to her that the boy had been gone for a while. She let the hoe fall. “Swan? Where are you?” Revere said she fussed over the boy too much and she knew it, but it was partly just loneliness; anyway, she liked to talk, and if Swan wasn't wi...

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The Man Without a Shadow (2015)

He is saying he remembers what it was like to be married. He is saying he remembers what it was like to be married to her. “You were my dear wife, I think? Before I got sick.” Clever Margot Sharpe has restyled her hair: she has brushed the shiny dark silver-threaded hair straight back from her fo...

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