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Overview"Replete with the emotional intensity and pathos for which Joyce Carol Oates is lauded, these fourteen stories explore the intimate lives of contemporary American families: the tangled relationship between generations, the desperation of loving more than one is loved in return. In ""Cutty Sark"" and ""Landfill,"" the bond between adolescent son and mother reverberates with the force of an unspoken passion. The gripping title story finds Oates boldly reimagining the true-crime story of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother who drowned her children in 2001. Several stories offer a more lighthearted reprieve, examining with dark humor the shadowy intersection between self-awareness and delusion." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joyce Carol OatesPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc Imprint: ECCO Press Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.286kg ISBN: 9780061704321ISBN 10: 0061704326 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 15 April 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsAdmirers of Oates literary fiction will find this collection a transcendent read. Dear Husband is likely to win Oates new fans as well. Oates characters are masterfully rendered, but she is particularly gifted at creating a certain type: The appallingly egocentric, sometimes to the point of unwitting hostility. --Boston Herald Savage, poetic and ruthless...[Oates's] touch has never been surer, her insights never more piercing....several of the [stories], astonishingly, are among the best things she's ever done...we are witnessing the steady unfolding of one of the towering careers in American letters. -- Washington Post Author InformationJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award and the PEN / Malamud Award, and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her books include We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, Carthage, A Book of American Martyrs and Hazards of Time Travel. She is Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |