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My Life as a Rat: A Novel
“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 ever justified? Can one do the right thing, but bitterly regret it? My Life as a Rat follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an African-American boy by her older brothers. In a succession of vividly recalled episodes Violet contemplates the circumstances of her life as the initially beloved younge... [Read More] Joyce Carol Oates Best Novels
- ASIN: B07FSQSWCX
- ASIN: B07FSQSWCX
- Manufacturer: Ecco
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Black Water
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 to haunt us.”—The New York TimesKelly Kelleher is an idealistic, twenty-six-year-old “good girl” when she meets the Senator at a Fourth of July party. In a brilliantly woven narrative, we enter her past and her present, her mind and her body as she is fatally attracted to this older man, this hero, this soon-to-be-lover.Kelly becomes the very embodiment of the vulnerable, romantic dreams of bright and brave women—drawn to the power tha... [Read More] Joyce Carol Oates Best Novels
- ASIN: 0452269865
- ASIN: 0452269865
- ISBN: 9780452269866
- Manufacturer: Plume
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Blonde: A Novel
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 conflicted and driven—who has lost her way. A powerful portrait of Hollywood’s myth and an extraordinary woman’s heartbreaking reality, Blonde is a sweeping epic that pays tribute to the elusive magic and devastation behind the creation of the great twentieth-century American star. Joyce Carol Oates Best Novels
- ASIN: B01N979PNC
- ASIN: B01N979PNC
- Manufacturer: Ecco
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A Fair Maiden: A Novel
Joyce Carol Oates Best Novels
- ASIN: B003K15INA
- ASIN: B003K15INA
- Manufacturer: Mariner Books
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Blonde: A Novel
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—reborn to tell her untold history; her story of a star created to shine brightest in the Hollywood firmament before her fall to earth. Blonde is a dazzling fictional portrait of the intricate inner life of the idolized and desired movie star as only the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates could paint it. Joyce Carol Oates Best Novels
- ASIN: 006093493X
- ASIN: 006093493X
- ISBN: 006093493X
- Manufacturer: HarpPeren
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The Man Without a Shadow: A Novel
In this taut and fascinating novel, the bestselling, New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of The Sacrifice, The Accursed, and Lovely, Dark, Deep examines the mysteries of memory, personality, and identity and pierces the enigmatic force that drives human lives—love.In 1965, neuroscientist Margot Sharpe meets the attractive, charismatic Elihu Hoopes—the “man without a shadow”—whose devastated memory, unable to store new experiences or to retrieve the old, will make him the most famous and most studied amnesiac in history. Over the course of the next thirty years, Margot herself becomes famous for her experiments with E. H.—and inadvertently falls in love with him, despite the ethical ambiguity of their affair, and though he remains forever elusive an... [Read More] Joyce Carol Oates Best Novels
- ASIN: B00WR12MX8
- ASIN: B00WR12MX8
- Manufacturer: Ecco
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Expensive People: A Novel
Beautifully redesigned, Joyce Carol Oates's most popular earlier novel, which explores the psyche of a preadolescent killer, is now back in print, with an afterword by the author. Joyce Carol Oates Best Novels
- ASIN: 086538116X
- ASIN: 086538116X
- ISBN: 086538116X
- Brand: Brand: Ontario Review
- Manufacturer: Ontario Review
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Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)
A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 * A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB NOW READ THIS * FINALIST FOR THE 2018 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE* WINNER OF THE MEDICI BOOK CLUB PRIZE Roxane Gay's Favorite Book of 2017, Washington Post NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER "There could only be a few winners, and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lu... [Read More] Joyce Carol Oates Best Novels
- ASIN: 1455563927
- ASIN: 1455563927
- ISBN: 9781455563920
- Brand: Grand Central Publishing
- Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
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Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers
Joyce Carol Oates Best Novels
- ASIN: 0393971767
- ASIN: 0393971767
- ISBN: 9780393971767
- Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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With Shuddering Fall: A Novel
The first novel from New York Times-bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a thrilling, dark tale of family, revenge, and two souls intertwined by love and violence—now back in print for fans of America’s most prolific storyteller.Written when Joyce Carol Oates was in her early twenties, and first published in 1964, With Shuddering Fall is her powerful debut novel, the first of five new Oates reprints from Ecco.Following the turbulent story of two lovers who discover themselves mortal enemies, the author explores the struggle for dominance in erotic relationships that has become a predominant theme in her work, as well as the perils of patriarchal inheritance, and the ripple-effects of emotional loss in adolescence. The result is an unsentimental yet sympathetic rendering of a disa... [Read More] Joyce Carol Oates Best Novels
- ASIN: B072BFJFJ5
- ASIN: B072BFJFJ5
- Manufacturer: Ecco
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My Sister, My Love. Joyce Carol Oates
"New York Times"-bestselling author Oates is back with this dark, wry, captivating tale, inspired by an unsolved true-crime Joyce Carol Oates Best Novels A dark, wry, captivating tale, inspired by an unsolved American true crime mystery. 'My Sister, My Love' is based on the controversial true-crime mystery of the JonBenet Ramsey murder. When a beautiful, ice-skating child prodigy is found brutally murdered, suspicion immediately mounts against friends, neighbours - and even the young girl's own family. Told from the point of view of the dead girl's brother, and in the inimitable style and gripping voice that has long been Oates's trademark, 'My Sister, My Love' explores the darkest corners of the human psyche, and takes the reader into a twisted world that only
- UPC: 321819787
- Rating: 4.0
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The Best American Essays of the Century
An anthology of fifty-five essays on a variety of topics features contributions by F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Baldwin, Stephen Jay Gould, Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, and other notable twentieth-century literary Joyce Carol Oates Best Novels 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 larger significance without severing the connection between speaker and audience. From Ernest Hemingway covering bullfights in Pamplona to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” these essays fit, in the words of Joyce Carol Oates, “into a kind of mobile mosaic suggest[ing] where we’ve come from, and who
- UPC: 1572777
- Rating: 4.0
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Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories (LOA #204) : The Lottery / The Haunting of Hill House / We Have Always Lived in the Castle / other stories and sketches
Features a collection of writings across different genres by the mid-twentieth-century author. Joyce Carol Oates Best Novels 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 and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming, of things taking a turn for the worse." In this Library of America volume Joyce Carol Oates, our leading practitioner of the contemporary Gothic, presents the essential works of Shirley
- UPC: 13312264
- Rating: 5.0
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Dark Eyes on America : The Novels of Joyce Carol Oates
Dark Eyes on America illuminates the vision of one of America's most extraordinary and prolific woman of letters, Joyce Carol Oates. In this remarkable study, the author discovers in her novels an evolving consciousness that ultimately forgoes abstract introspection in favor of a more practical approach to art as a tool for understanding both personal and social challenges. Cologne-Brookes's conversations and correspondence with Oates combined with his close textual study of her novels and abundant references to her writings result in an exceptional work, critically synthesizing the layers of her Joyce Carol Oates Best Novels Joyce Carol Oates is America's most extraordinary and prolific woman of letters. In Dark Eyes on America, Gavin Cologne-Brookes illuminates the vision of this remarkable master of her craft, finding evidence in her novels of an evolving consciousness that ultimately forgoes abstract introspection in favor of a more practical approach to art as a tool for understanding both personal and social challenges. With her clear-eyed perception of human behavior, Oates has for decades offered unhesitating explorations of genre, topic, and style--making her an inevitable if somewhat elusive subject for critical assessment. Cologne-Brookes's conversations and correspondence with Oates, his close textual
- UPC: 11592203
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Hazards of Time Travel
9780062319593 Joyce Carol Oates Best Novels 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 (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America -- "Wainscotia, Wisconsin"--that existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town she is set upon a course of "rehabilitation"--but cannot resist falling in love with a fellow
- UPC: 849343947
- Rating: 2.75
A Beginner’s Guide to Reading Joyce Carol Oates
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An Evening With Joyce Carol Oates at Revolution Books Berkeley 4-30-19
http://RevolutionBooks.org ~ https://www.facebook.com/RevolutionBooks ~ Twitter: @RevolutionBksB An evening with Joyce Carol Oates 4-30-19 reading & discussing her novel "Hazards of Time Travel." ...
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