| 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 | |
![]() | Dr. Magic : six one act plays recommended: 0 times published at: 2004 Synopsis: Dr. Magic (2006) is a stage play by Joyce Carol Oates. --- Contents Homesick Dr. Magic Here She Is! Negative The Adoption When I Was A Little Girl And My Mother Didn't Want Me ... read more |
| Take me, take me with you : a novel of suspense recommended: 0 times published at: 2004 Synopsis: Take Me, Take Me With You (2004) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, published under pseudonym Lauren Kelly. --- Product Description Lauren Kelly, with amazing power and authority, explores the secret kinship of "soul mates," in a mysterious and demonic love story. Lara Quade, a disaffected intellectual associated with a prominent Princeton research center, is a young woman whose physical beauty... read more | |
![]() | The tattooed girl : a novel recommended: 0 times published at: 2003 Synopsis: Tattooed Girl (2003) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates. --- Product Description Joshua Seigl, a celebrated but reclusive author, is forced for reasons of failing health to surrender his much-prized bachelor's independence. Advertising for an assistant, he unwittingly embarks upon the most dangerous adventure of his privileged life. Alma Busch, a sensuous, physically attractive young woman with... read more |
| Freaky green eyes recommended: 0 times published at: 2003 Synopsis: Freaky Green Eyes (2003) is a young adult novel by Joyce Carol Oates. Prompting several critics to compare its storyline to the events resulting in the O. J. Simpson trial of the early 1990s, Freaky Green Eyes also focuses on a teenaged girl who must make a choice about whether action is better than inaction. Francesca "Frankie" Pierson is the daughter of a wealthy but abusive sportscaster whom she... read more | |
![]() | The faith of a writer : life, craft, art recommended: 0 times published at: 2003 Synopsis: Faith of a Writer (2003) is a collection of essays by Joyce Carol Oates. --- Product Description A tribute to the brilliant craftsmanship of one of our most distinguished writers, providing valuable insight into her inspiration and her method. Joyce Carol Oates is widely regarded as one of America's greatest contemporary literary figures. Having written in a number of genres—prose, poetry, personal... read more |
| Small avalanches and other stories recommended: 0 times published at: 2003 Synopsis: Small Avalanches and Other Stories (2003) is a young adult collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates. It was her only collection of short stories for young adults. It was publishedby HarperTempist. --- Product Description When THE SKY BLUE BALL comes soaring over the fence, a high-school girl is confronted with the haunting memory of childhood. A jealous teen lets her cousin go off alone... read more | |
| Rape : a love story recommended: 0 times published at: 2003 Synopsis: Rape : A Love Story (2003) is a novella by Joyce Carol Oates. The story is about single mother Teena Maguire and her daughter. The victim of a Fourth of July gang rape, Teena and her daughter become the target of harassment and violence on the part of the assailants after Teena identifies the perpetrators for the Niagara Falls Police Department. --- Product Description Teena Maguire should not... read more | |
| Where is Little Reynard? recommended: 0 times published at: 2003 Synopsis: Where is Little Reynard? (2003) is picture novel by Joyce Carol Oates and Mark Graham. Oates provided the story and Graham provided the illustration. It was second juvenile fiction by Oates, following Come Meet Muffin which was also illustrated by Mark Graham. --- Product Description Mama cat has seven kittens. Little Reynard is the smallest, and his brothers and sisters tease him about his size... read more | |
| Miss Golden Dreams [Programmheft] recommended: 0 times published at: 2002 Synopsis: Miss Golden Dreams (2002) is a play and CBS adapted series that was creating by Joyce Carol Oates's Blonde : A Novel . ... read more | |
| I'll take you there : a novel recommended: 0 times published at: 2002 Synopsis: I'll take you there : a novel (2002) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates. It was on the list of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year, --- Plot summary A smart student, Anellia, joins a sorority in Syracuse, New York. Soon enough, she crumbles under the exorbitant debt she runs up. Finally, she pretends she indulges in unrational behaviour to get out of the sorority and move into affordable... read more | |
| Beasts recommended: 0 times published at: 2002 Synopsis: Beasts (2002) is a novella by Joyce Carol Oates. Set in an apparently idyllic New England college town in the 1970s, Beasts is the story of Gillian Brauer, a talented young student obsessed with her charismatic anti-establishment English professor Andre Harrow. Knowing that other girls preceded her does not deter Gillian from being drawn into the decadent world of Professor Harrow and his wife,... read more | |
| Big Mouth & Ugly Girl recommended: 0 times published at: 2002 Synopsis: Big Mouth & Ugly Girl (2002) is Joyce Carol Oates's first young adult novel. It was first published by HarperCollins. The book offers a unique perspective of the psyche of a big, tall girl. The book focuses on sixteen-year-old high schoolers Matt Donaghy and Ursula Riggs. The two begin a romance after Matt's poor decision to make a joke to his friends about a school massacre results in a police... read more | |
| Best new American voices, 2003 recommended: 0 times published at: 2002 Synopsis: Best New American Voices, 2003 is a story collection published by Harcourt established in year 2000. Introduction is provided by Joyce Carol Oates (read it here) and she was also a guest editor. Series editors are John Kulka and Natalie Danford. --- Product Description Since its launch in 2000, the Best New American Voices series has been praised for the range and originality of its selections,... read more | |
| Middle Age : A Romance recommended: 0 times published at: 2001 Synopsis: Middle Age : A Romance (2001) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, originally published by Ecco. --- Plot Adam Berendt, a cryptic yet charismatic sculptor, passes away. The novel expounds the peculiar relationships that he had with the other women in the neighbourhood. In Salthill-on-Hudson, a New York City suburb for the wealthy and middle-aged, Adam Berendt, a charismatic sculptor, drowns in a river... read more | |
| Faithless : tales of transgression recommended: 0 times published at: 2001 Synopsis: Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001) is a collection of 21 short stories by Joyce Carol Oates. The stories explore disturbing psyche of humans and brutality the comes from it. --- 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... read more | |
| The barrens recommended: 0 times published at: 2001 Synopsis: The Barrens (2001) is a psychological thriller from Joyce Carol Oates. The book was published under her pseudonym Rosamund Smith. (Detail of this name can be read here) --- Product Description - from Celestial Timepiece In this compelling new novel from one of the most versatile and original voices in contemporary American fiction, National Book Award-winner Joyce Carol Oates (writing as Rosamond... read more | |
| Blonde : a novel recommended: 0 times published at: 2000 Synopsis: Blonde (2000) is a bestselling historical novel by Joyce Carol Oates. In the novel Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker - the child, the woman, the fated celebrity and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In the story Norma Jeane tells her own story of an emblematic American artist -intensely conflicted and driven - who had lost her... read more | |
| Snapshots : 20th century mother-daughter fiction recommended: 0 times published at: 2000 Synopsis: Snapshots : 20th century mother-daughter fiction (2000) is a collection edited by Joyce Carol Oates and Janet Berliner. It contains series of short stories focusing on the relationship between and mother and daughter from such authors as Margaret Atwood, Gloria Naylor, and Alice Walker. --- Product Description - from Celestial Timepiece SNAPSHOTS. A lens opens, a shutter snaps, a moment is... read more | |
| Where I've been, and where I'm going : essays, reviews, and prose recommended: 0 times published at: 1999 Synopsis: Where I've Been, And Where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose (1999) is nearly 50 recent essays and reviews by Joyce Carol Oates. The collection demonstrates Oates's passionate and wide-ranging interests. This compilation of Fairytales ancient and modern, the literature of serial killers, surrealist art. boxing -- these are but a few of the subjects to which Oates turns her formidable intelligence.... read more |