Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories

Short Story Collections I Have Read (41 items)
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books read in 2006 (30 items)
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JCO Bibliography - Short Story Collections (34 items)
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In UPON THE SWEEPING FLOOD, Joyce Carol Oates again brings to the short story the prodigious talent that won her such critical acclaim in By the North Gate. Here are stories that are intense, ironic, sinister, and violent, reflecting incisively the mores of a frightening world—a world in which love is complex and difficult, in which evil is ordinary, in which senseless actions lead to even more senseless non sequiturs, in which religion becomes antiseptic, in which families and societies exploit one another . . . in which the enemy is imagined to be external, but is, in reality, within.