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Author of the Month: Joyce Carol Oates
Oates’s prolific output often mixes gothic estrangement with high social observation. Her novels include Blonde (nominated for the 2000 National Book Award), We Were the Mulvaneys (a 2001 Oprah Book Club pick), and the New York Times bestsellers The Falls (2004) and The Gravedigger’s Daughter (2007). She has recently started writing books for young people. For all her success, Oates’s daily routine of teaching and writing has changed very little. A quotation from Henry James is affi xed to the bulletin board over her desk, and perhaps best expresses her own view of her life and writing: “We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”
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In her most ambitious work to date, 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 t...
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In her second novel, Joyce Carol Oates, author of many bestselling novels, including We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde, created one of her most memorable heroines, Clara, the beautiful daughter of m...
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No other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates. High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 gathers short fiction from the acclaimed author's seminal collections and inc...
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So begins the unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an "infamous" American family. A decade ago the Rampikes were destroyed by the mu...
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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...
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Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936, the Schwarts immigrate to a small town in upstate New York. Here the father—a former high school teacher—is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemete...
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In "Hi! Howya Doin!" an intrusive jogger meets with an abrupt fate; in "The Man Who Fought Roland LaStarza" a young woman’s romantic view of her girlhood is devastated by her father’s confessions; ...
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The Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet, until something happens on Valentine's Day, 1976, which rends the fabric of their family life, with tragic consequences. The youngest son, Ju...
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