Faithless: Tales of Transgression - Brossura

Oates, Joyce Carol

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0060933577 ISBN 13: 9780060933579

Casa editrice: Ecco Pr, 2002

Riassunto

The author of Blonde shares a new collection of twenty-four short stories that probe the deep, disturbing heart of America in such works as "Faithless," "Ugly Girl," "Lover," and "Gunlove." Reprint.

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L'autore:

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

Product Description:

In this collection of twenty-one unforgettable stories, Joyce Carol Oates explores the mysterious private lives of men and women with vivid, unsparing precision and sympathy. By turns interlocutor and interpreter, magician and realist, she dissects the psyches of ordinary people and their potential for good and evil with chilling understatement and lasting power.

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• Editore: Ecco Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0060933577
• ISBN 13: 9780060933579
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 386