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2BIBLIOGRAPHY of Joyce Carol Oates
 | Little Bird of Heaven recommended: 0 times published at: 2009 Synopsis: Little Bird of Heaven (2009) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates. It will be published by Ecco on September 15th, 2009. ... read more |
 | Dear Husband recommended: 0 times published at: 2009 Synopsis: Dear Husband (2009) is a short story collection by Joyce Carol Oates. It contains 14 tales variously concerned with family relationships and crises. It was first published by Harper Collins. --- Proudct Description A gripping and moving new collection of stories by Joyce Carol Oates, which reimagines the meaning of family—by unexpected, often startling means With the unflinching candor and sympathy... read more |
 | My Sister, My Love recommended: 0 times published at: 2008 Synopsis: My Sister, My Love (2008) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates. It is her 37th published novel. It reimagines the JonBenet Ramsey murder, with ice-skating champion Bliss Rampike standing in for JonBenet, and is narrated by her surviving older brother, Skyler Rampike. The book received generally positive reviews, with USA Today noting, "Employing her powerful imagination, the gifted Oates gets inside her... read more |
 | Wild Nights! recommended: 0 times published at: 2008 Synopsis: Wild Nights! : Stories about the last days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James and Hemingway (2008) is a collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates. As the title suggests, the stories are about the final days in the lives of authors Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James and Ernest Hemingway. It was originally published by HarperCollins. --- Product Description Edgar Allan... read more |
 | Naughty Cherie recommended: 0 times published at: 2008 Synopsis: Naughty Cherie (2008) is a children's book by Joyce Carol Oates, illustrated by Mark Graham. --- Product Description Naughty Chérie is the cutest kitten in the litter, but she certainly isn't the best-behaved one! She tries, but she can't seem to stay out of trouble. Sitting alone in the corner as punishment, she finds a small crack in the wall that leads to a place called Little Friends Kindercare.... read more |
 | The museum of Dr. Moses : tales of mystery and suspense recommended: 0 times published at: 2007 Synopsis: The Museum of Dr. Moses is a short story collection (2007) by Joyce Carol Oates which comprises shorter works in a darker genre. In "The Man Who Fought Roland LaStarza" a woman’s world is upended when she learns the brutal truth about a family friend’s death—and what her father is capable of. Meanwhile, a businessman desperate to find his missing two-year-old grandson in "Suicide Watch" must determine... read more |
 | The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982 recommended: 0 times published at: 2007 Synopsis: The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982 (2007) is, as title suggests, collection of private diaries by Joyce Carol Oates. It was nominated for National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography in the same year. It offers a fascinating insight to private life of one of the most prominent writer of her time. -- Product Description On New Year's Day 1973, Joyce Carol Oates began keeping a journal,... read more |
 | The gravedigger's daughter : a novel recommended: 0 times published at: 2007 Synopsis: The Gravedigger's Daughter (2008) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates. It is her 36th published novel. The novel was based on the life of Oates's grandmother, whose father, a gravedigger settled in rural America, injured his wife, threatened his daughter, and then committed suicide. Oates explained that she decided to write about her family only after her parents died (in 2000 and 2003), adding that her... read more |
 | Black girl/white girl : a novel recommended: 0 times published at: 2006 Synopsis: Black Girl / White Girl (2006) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, first published by Ecco. The book takes the form of an untitled 300 page manuscript written in 1990 by Generva Meade, a white historian, who truthfully recounts the events which happened during her freshman year at a prestigious liberal college in 1974-75, and Meade's own paternal family history which uncomfortable spans the gap between... read more |
 | After the wreck, I picked myself up, spread my wings, and flew away recommended: 0 times published at: 2006 Synopsis: After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away (2006) is a young adult novel written by Joyce Carol Oates. It is her fourth novel for young adults, following Big Mouth and Ugly Girl (2002), Freaky Green Eyes (2003), and Sexy (2005). --- Product Description In the raw was how the world felt now. My feelings were raw, my thoughts were raw and hurtful like knife blades. . .... read more |
 | The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense recommended: 0 times published at: 2006 Synopsis: The Female of Species (2006) is a collection of 9 short stories by Joyce Carol Oates, published originally by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. --- Product Description A young wife is home alone when the phone rings in "So Help Me God." Is the strange voice flirting with her from the other end of the lone her jealous husband laying a trap, or a stranger who knows entirely too much about her? In "Madison... read more |
 | High lonesome : new & selected stories, 1966-2006 recommended: 0 times published at: 2006 Synopsis: High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories, 1966-2006 (2006) is an anthology of short stories by author Joyce Carol Oates, first published by Ecco. It is the author's largest collection of short stories. The anthology included previously published stories, selected by Oates as her personal favorites, accompanied by eleven new short stories. The book is otherwise divided into the decades in which the... read more |
 | Blood mask : a novel of suspense recommended: 0 times published at: 2006 Synopsis: Blook Mask : A Novel of Suspense (2006) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, published under pseudonym Lauren Kelly. --- Product Description A wealthy, charismatic, and controversial "benefactress of art," Drewe Hildebrand disappears from her estate on the Hudson River, seemingly abducted in the night. Her young niece, Marta, found in a desolate wooded area close by, is too traumatized to describe... read more |
 | Joyce Carol Oates : conversations, 1970-2006 recommended: 0 times published at: 2006 Synopsis: Joyce Carol Oates : Conversations 1970-2006 (2006) is a collection of interviews of Joyce Carol Oates spanning over 35 years. Majority of interviews have been published in various magazines but not in a book form. It was edited by Greg Johnson, a literary critic who authored her authorized autobiography, Invisible Writer. In the collection Oates talks candidly about literature, the writing life, her... read more |
 | Missing mom : a novel recommended: 0 times published at: 2005 Synopsis: Mission Mom (2005) is a novel from Joyce Carol Oates. The book is a tale of how a woman recovers from murder of her mother, The book is somewhat personal to Oates. In an interview, Joyce Carol Oates stated "When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother, Caroline Oates, had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover.... read more |
 | Uncensored : views & (re)views recommended: 0 times published at: 2005 Synopsis: Uncensotred (2005) is a collection of essays by Joyce Carol Oates. She also authored a preface. --- Product Description Uncensored: Views & (Re)views is Joyce Carol Oates's most candid gathering of prose pieces since (Woman) Writer: Occasions & Opportunities. Her ninth book of nonfiction, it brings together thirty-eight diverse and provocative pieces from the New York Review of Books, the... read more |
 | Sexy recommended: 0 times published at: 2005 Synopsis: Sexy (2005) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, originally published by Harper Tempest. It is Oates's third book written for young adults following Big Mouth and Ugly Girl and Freaky Green Eyes . The novel was mired in some controversial because of its target audience and the content. The themes of pedophilia, homosexuality, and pre-marital sex, and its usage of the curse words made several... read more |
 | The best American mystery stories, 2005 recommended: 0 times published at: 2005 Synopsis: The Best American Mystery Stories, 2005 is an anthology edited by Joyce Carol Oates and Otto Penzler. Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection... read more |
 | The stolen heart : a novel of suspense recommended: 0 times published at: 2005 Synopsis: The Stolen Heart : A Novel of Suspense (2005) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, published under pseudonym Lauren Kelly. --- Product Description From Lauren Kelly, "a writer of formidable talent" (Scott Turow), comes the page-turning story of Merilee Graf, whose past and present mysteries converge in a revelation too painful, and too shocking, for her to accept. Sixteen years ago, a vivacious fifth-grade... read more |
 | The falls : a novel recommended: 0 times published at: 2004 Synopsis: The Falls (2008) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, originally published in by the Ecco Press, and winner of the 2005 Prix Femina Etranger. It was on the list of New York Times Notable Book of the year. It tells the story of Ariah, a woman whose husband threw himself over Niagara Falls. The rest of the book is the story of her life and family, and how she finds love, then loses it when Ariah's new... read more |
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