High crime area tales of darkness and dread
"Joyce Carol Oates is an unparalleled investigator of human personality. In these eight stories, she deftly tests the bonds between damaged individuals -- a brother and sister, a teacher and student, two strangers on a subway -- in the fearless prose for which she's become so celebrated. In the titl...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc.,
[2014]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "Joyce Carol Oates is an unparalleled investigator of human personality. In these eight stories, she deftly tests the bonds between damaged individuals -- a brother and sister, a teacher and student, two strangers on a subway -- in the fearless prose for which she's become so celebrated. In the title story, "High Crime Area," a white, aspiring professor in Detroit is convinced that she is being followed. She turns to confront her black, male shadow in the campus parking garage, hyperaware of the handgun stowed in her purse -- just in case. But the situation isn't what she expects . . . . In these biting and beautiful pieces, Oates confronts, one by one, the demons within us. In the end, sometimes it's the human who wins, and sometimes it's the demon."--Book jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 247 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780802122650 0802122655 |
| Author Notes: | She is the author of numerous novels and collections of short stories. Her works include We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, Bellefleur, You Must Remember This, Because It Is Bitter, Because It Is My Heart, Solstice, Marya : A Life, and Give Me Your Heart. She has received numerous awards including the National Book Award for Them, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Literature. She was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with her title Lovely, Dark, Deep. She also wrote a series of suspense novels under the pseudonym Rosamond Smith. In 2015, her novel The Accursed became listed as a bestseller on the iBooks chart. She worked as a professor of English at the University of Windsor, before becoming the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. She and her late husband Raymond J. Smith operated a small press and published a literary magazine, The Ontario Review. (Bowker Author Biography) |
