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Joyce Carol Oates American Appetites
L.A. Theatre Works' exclusive dramatization of Joyce Carol Oates' best selling novel shows a close-knit group of prestigious scholars...
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Joyce Carol Oates Big Mouth & Ugly Girl (Unabridged)
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Joyce Carol Oates Blonde (Unabridged)
She was an all-American girl who became a legend of unparalleled stature....
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Joyce Carol Oates Gulf War and Black
Gulf War and Black are two one-act plays by acclaimed American author Joyce Carol Oates...
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Joyce Carol Oates The Falls (Unabridged)
A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls....
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Virago Press Ltd Man Crazy
Pages: 282, Paperback, Virago Press Ltd
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Atlantic Books Rape: A Love Story
Pages: 160, Paperback, Atlantic Books
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Fourth Estate Blonde
In Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates--one of America's most prestigious and versatile writers, author of numerous novels and short fictions--joins the ranks of those who have competed to tell the story of one of her nation's most compelling legends: Norma Jeane Baker, or Marilyn Monroe. In her Author's Note to this monumental novel, Oates describes the work as a radically distilled life in the form of fiction. For all its length, she continues (the book is over 700 pages long), synecdoche is the principle of appropriation. No straightforward account of a life, then--supposing such a feat were possible--<I>Blonde</ I> is both fragmentary and exhaustive, fictional and historical. Divided into five chronological sections from The Child 1932-1938 to The Afterlife 1959-1962, the narrative voice shifts from first to third-person perspective, telling of a life that, from the start, is bound to the fascinations of cinema: This movie I've been seeing all my life, yet never to its completion. Almost she might say: This movie is my life! In Oates's revision of Marilyn, that fascination is, in turn, bound to Norma Jeane's painful, and paradoxical, tie to her mother: When I was born, on June 1, 1926, in the charity ward of the Los Angeles County Hospital, my mother wasn't there. Being loved as an actress, being loved as a child, are crucial themes of <I>Blonde</I>, themes which agitate throughout Oates's telling of Baker's drive to fame and love, to Daddy and babies--Except if Daddy could make her pregnant she would love Daddy again--to beauty and death. It's the stuff of sensation and scandal, but Oates's reading of her subject is tactful, empathetic and, above all, alert to the complex femininity now carried through the life and image of Marilyn Monroe. --<I>Vicky Lebeau</I>
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Harper Perennial Blonde
In Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates--one of America's most prestigious and versatile writers, author of numerous novels and short fictions--joins the ranks of those who have competed to tell the story of one of her nation's most compelling legends: Norma Jeane Baker, or Marilyn Monroe. In her Author's Note to this monumental novel, Oates describes the work as a radically distilled life in the form of fiction. For all its length, she continues (the book is over 700 pages long), synecdoche is the principle of appropriation. No straightforward account of a life, then--supposing such a feat were possible--<I>Blonde</ I> is both fragmentary and exhaustive, fictional and historical. Divided into five chronological sections from The Child 1932-1938 to The Afterlife 1959-1962, the narrative voice shifts from first to third-person perspective, telling of a life that, from the start, is bound to the fascinations of cinema: This movie I've been seeing all my life, yet never to its completion. Almost she might say: This movie is my life! In Oates's revision of Marilyn, that fascination is, in turn, bound to Norma Jeane's painful, and paradoxical, tie to her mother: When I was born, on June 1, 1926, in the charity ward of the Los Angeles County Hospital, my mother wasn't there. Being loved as an actress, being loved as a child, are crucial themes of <I>Blonde</I>, themes which agitate throughout Oates's telling of Baker's drive to fame and love, to Daddy and babies--Except if Daddy could make her pregnant she would love Daddy again--to beauty and death. It's the stuff of sensation and scandal, but Oates's reading of her subject is tactful, empathetic and, above all, alert to the complex femininity now carried through the life and image of Marilyn Monroe. --<I>Vicky Lebeau</I>
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Ecco Missing Mom
Pages: 434, Hardcover, Ecco
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Ecco Uncensored: Views & (Re)Views
Pages: 370, Hardcover, Ecco
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Harper Perennial I Am No One You Know: Stories
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HarperCollins The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art
Pages: 176, Paperback, HarperCollins
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HarperCollins Publishers Sexy
Pages: 272, Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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HarperTempest Sexy
Pages: 263, Paperback, HarperTempest
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Ecco High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories, 1966-2006
Pages: 664, Hardcover, Ecco
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Fourth Estate Middle Age: A Romance
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HarperCollins World Small Avalanches and Other Stories
Pages: 400, Paperback, HarperCollins World
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Fourth Estate Black Girl, White Girl
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Fourth Estate The Falls
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HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks Freaky Green Eyes
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Fourth Estate I'll Take You There
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Fourth Estate The Tattooed Girl
Pages: 307, Hardcover, Fourth Estate
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Atlantic Books Rape: A Love Story
Pages: 160, Hardcover, Atlantic Books
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Fourth Estate I'll Take You There
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Fourth Estate Mother, Missing
Pages: 416, Hardcover, Fourth Estate
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HarperPerennial The Falls
Pages: 400, Paperback, HarperPerennial
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Fourth Estate Faithless: Tales of Transgression
Pages: 400, Paperback, Fourth Estate
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Rutgers University Press Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Pages: 165, Paperback, Rutgers University Press
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Fourth Estate We Were the Mulvaneys
Joyce Carol Oates' <I>We Were the Mulvaneys</I> is the story of a happy family. After decades of marriage, Mum and Dad are still in love--and the proud parents of a brood of youngsters, which includes a star athlete, a class valedictorian and a popular cheerleader. Home is an idyllic place called High Point Farm, and the bonds of attachment within this all-American clan do seem deep and unconditional: <blockquote>Mom paused again, drawing in her breath sharply, her eyes suffused with a special lustre, gazing upon her family one by one, with what crazy unbounded love she gazed upon us, and at such a moment my heart would contract as if this woman who was my mother had slipped her fingers inside my rib cage to contain it, as you might hold a wild, thrashing bird to comfort it.</blockquote> But as we all know, Eden can't last forever. And in the hands of Joyce Carol Oates, who's chronicled just about every variety of familial dysfunction, you know the fall from grace is going to be memorable. By the time all is said and done, a rape occurs, a daughter is exiled, much alcohol is consumed and the farm is lost. Even to recount these events in retrospect is a trial for the Mulvaney offspring, one of whom declares: When I say this is a hard reckoning I mean it's been like squeezing thick drops of blood from my veins. <p> In the hands of a lesser writer, this could be the stuff of a bad made-for-tv film but this is Oates' 26th novel, and by now she knows her material and her craft to perfection. <I>We Were the Mulvaneys</I> is populated with such richly observed and complex characters that you can't help but care about them, even as you wait for disaster to strike them down. --<I>Anita Urquhart, Amazon.com</I>
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CollinsFlamingo Big Mouth and Ugly Girl
Pages: 288, Paperback, CollinsFlamingo
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HarperPerennial The Tattooed Girl
Pages: 336, Paperback, HarperPerennial
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Pinnacle Books Crimes of Passion (Hot Blood)
Pages: 272, Mass Market Paperback, Pinnacle Books
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Virago Press Ltd Expensive People (Virago Modern Classics)
Pages: 308, Paperback, Virago Press Ltd
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Virago Press Ltd Broke Heart Blues
If our age's ascendant idol is celebrity, then Joyce Carol Oates' <I>Broke Heart Blues</I>--and such worship is as compelling as in any less secular era--is both an insight and an affront. Set primarily in an affluent Buffalo, New York, suburb in the mid- 1960s, the novel's charismatic core is high-school sensation John Reddy Heart, a local legend whose faultless, James Dean cool is so penetrating that it colours his peers' lives--even as his Christlike transfiguration removes him from their orbit. As always, Oates chronicling of her many characters is fairly astonishing in its scope, while the allegorical sheen of the book allows her to probe an often ambivalent fascination.<p>When the young John Reddy first arrives in town, he, as well as his beautiful and dissolute mother, becomes an object of instant awe. Handsome, dangerous and inscrutable, he transforms steadily into a virtual rumour, his every act loreworthy, his habits the stuff of endless speculation. Though he enters you through the eyes, he's someone you <I>feel</I>, observes one classmate. While his allure is, initially, mostly physical--the boys want to emulate him, the girls want to lose their virginity to him--John Reddy eventually becomes transcendent: that someone like him exists is a challenge to the drab and predictable trajectories of his classmates' lives. When one of his mother's lovers is killed, and the evidence seemingly points to John Reddy himself, a feverish martyrdom ensues, a self-sacrifice that is, we discover, more tangled and exacting than his disciplelike peers can imagine.<p>Oates, admirably, takes many chances in <I>Broke Heart Blues</I>, not the least of which is a frequent use of the first-person plural(!) narrator. This device, while allowing both a broad and immediate view of the proceedings, often seems thickly undifferentiated, a means for emphasising the insular nature of rumour. John Reddy's identification with Christ (and the trinity he forms with his mother and grandfather) is a difficult manoeuvre as well, making him less a viable protagonist than a central cipher, an accretion of conjecture and myth. When, after a lengthy detour into the prosaic aftermath of John Reddy's high school career, we see his classmates at their 30-year reunion in Second Coming posture, longing for a John Reddy sighting, endurance of celebrity becomes not only plain but pathetic. The cult of personality may lead to redemption, but life, inevitably, is what transpires in the interval. --<I>Ben Guterson</I>
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Random House USA Inc Them (Modern Library)
Pages: 432, Hardcover, Random House USA Inc
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Orion mass market paperback The Barrens
Pages: 320, Paperback, Orion mass market paperback
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Orion mass market paperback Beasts
Pages: 138, Paperback, Orion mass market paperback
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Ontario Review Press New Plays
Pages: 284, Paperback, Ontario Review Press
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Ontario Review Press Wonderland
Pages: 511, Paperback, Ontario Review Press
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Ontario Review Press I Lock My Door Upon Myself
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Univ.P.of Mississippi Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates (Literary conversations)
Pages: 212, Paperback, Univ.P.of Mississippi
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Barnes & Noble Books-Imports We Were the Mulvaneys (Barnes & Noble Reader's Companion)
Joyce Carol Oates' <I>We Were the Mulvaneys</I> is the story of a happy family. After decades of marriage, Mum and Dad are still in love--and the proud parents of a brood of youngsters, which includes a star athlete, a class valedictorian and a popular cheerleader. Home is an idyllic place called High Point Farm, and the bonds of attachment within this all-American clan do seem deep and unconditional: <blockquote>Mom paused again, drawing in her breath sharply, her eyes suffused with a special lustre, gazing upon her family one by one, with what crazy unbounded love she gazed upon us, and at such a moment my heart would contract as if this woman who was my mother had slipped her fingers inside my rib cage to contain it, as you might hold a wild, thrashing bird to comfort it.</blockquote> But as we all know, Eden can't last forever. And in the hands of Joyce Carol Oates, who's chronicled just about every variety of familial dysfunction, you know the fall from grace is going to be memorable. By the time all is said and done, a rape occurs, a daughter is exiled, much alcohol is consumed and the farm is lost. Even to recount these events in retrospect is a trial for the Mulvaney offspring, one of whom declares: When I say this is a hard reckoning I mean it's been like squeezing thick drops of blood from my veins. <p> In the hands of a lesser writer, this could be the stuff of a bad made-for-tv film but this is Oates' 26th novel, and by now she knows her material and her craft to perfection. <I>We Were the Mulvaneys</I> is populated with such richly observed and complex characters that you can't help but care about them, even as you wait for disaster to strike them down. --<I>Anita Urquhart, Amazon.com</I>
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Fourth Estate Middle Age: A Romance
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HarperCollins Publishers After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away
Pages: 292, Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Ontario Review Press Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories
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