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With the precision and intensity that are the hallmarks of her remarkable talent, Joyce Carol Oates once again surveys the American scene in Will You Always Love Me? In twenty-two stories that take the reader from inner cities to isolated backwaters, Oates demonstrates once more that she is a master of the American short story
Obsession with loss, fear of betrayal, and sudden violence plagues the characters who inhabit Oates's haunting fiction. She examines the lives of the working poor and follies of the idle and irresponsible rich with searching clarity. From the title story, in which a woman's rage over the savage murder o
With the precision and intensity that are the hallmarks of her remarkable talent, Joyce Carol Oates once again surveys the American scene in Will You Always Love Me? In twenty-two stories that take the reader from inner cities to isolated backwaters, Oates demonstrates once more that she is a master of the American short story
Obsession with loss, fear of betrayal, and sudden violence plagues the characters who inhabit Oates's haunting fiction. She examines the lives of the working poor and follies of the idle and irresponsible rich with searching clarity. From the title story, in which a woman's rage over the savage murder of her sister years ago crowds out all reason and hope of happiness, to the prize-winning "The Goose-Girl," in which a respectable suburban matron becomes her son's accomplice in sexually humiliating a glamorous new neighbor, Joyce Carol Oates uses her talent like a scalpel to cut swiftly and precisely through the surface of everyday life to lay bare the powerful, perilous emotional currents swirling below. In "The Passion of Rydcie Mather," a woman who is a committed atheist is driven by a God in whom she does not believe into an act of vengeful destruction. In "The Track," a wealthy childless couple seek fulfillment in training and racing a thoroughbred horse. And in "American, Abroad," a self-sufficient career woman finds herself out of her depth with a beautiful young girl in treacherous emotional waters. In all of these stories, the characters, male and female, young and old, rich and poor, sophisticated and naive, come to vivid life in a world of dangerous truths and fateful consequences. Joyce Carol Oates's uncanny eye for physical detail, her flawless ear for American speech, and her X-ray vision of the human heart and psyche make the stories she tells indelibly and inescapably real.
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Manufacturer: E P Dutton
Release date: 31 January 1996
ISBN-10 : 0525939725 |
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