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 | Broke heart blues : a novel recommended: 0 times published at: 1999 Synopsis: Broke Heart Blues (1999) is the 29th novel by Joyce Carol Oates. This novel, in the form of a religious allegory, is about a Christ figure who appears in a small upstate New York town. The effect of the allegory, critics suggest, is to emphasize the bleakness of American culture and the need to redeem it. --- Product Description One of our most incisive chroniclers of the human condition, Joyce... read more |
| Starr Bright will be with you soon recommended: 0 times published at: 1999 Synopsis: Starr Bright will be with you soon (1999) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates published under pseudonym Rosamond Smith. --- Product Description As Rosamond Smith, Joyce Carol Oates has explored the secret kinship of twins, often depicted as diabolical doubles who are mirror images of our darker, more violent selves—haunting reflections of our deepest fears and dreads. In Starr Bright Will Be with... read more | |
 | My heart laid bare recommended: 0 times published at: 1998 Synopsis: My Heart Laid Bare (1998) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates. The novel is the fifth and the final chapter of the series often referred as a The Gothic Saga; Bellefleur , A Bloodsmoore Romance , Mysteries of Winterhurn , and The Crosswicks Horror (unpublished, information can be found here) are other books in the series. The title comes from a quote by Edgar Allan Poe: If any ambitious... read more |
 | New Plays recommended: 0 times published at: 1998 Synopsis: New Plays (1998) is collection of poems by Joyce Carol Oates. If is her 4th collection of plays. --- Product Description Winner of the National Book Award for her novel Them and the PEN/Malamud Award for Achievement in the Short Story, Joyce Carol Oates is also a highly acclaimed dramatist. Her plays have been performed in major cities throughout the United States and Europe. In 1990 she was... read more |
 | The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque recommended: 0 times published at: 1998 Synopsis: The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) is a collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates. --- Product Description It can appear in a dream state; it can breathe in familiar shadows; it can be unique or unbearably recognizable. What is it about the grotesque that fascinates, provokes, and fills us with a rising sense of dread? In these twenty-seven tales of the forbidden,... read more |
| Telling stories : an anthology for writers recommended: 0 times published at: 1998 Synopsis: Telling Stories (1997) is an anthology collected and edited by Joyce Carol Oates. Introduction was also authored by Oates. --- Product Description Drawn from Joyce Carol Oates's reading list at Princeton University, the pieces collected in Telling Stories provide beginning writers with models and inspiration for their own writing. Oates gathers here a diverse anthology of over one hundred works,... read more | |
 | Come meet Muffin recommended: 0 times published at: 1998 Synopsis: Come Meet Muffin! (1998) is Joyce Carol Oates's first children's book. --- Product Description When the Smith family rescues Muffin on the side of a country road, he appears to be a typical lost kitten in search of a home. But little Lily Smith soon discovers that this watermelon-loving, peanut-butter-eating new friend is no ordinary kitty! Muffin sits at the dinner table, enjoys lettuce and rye... read more |
 | Man crazy : a novel recommended: 0 times published at: 1997 Synopsis: Man Crazy (1997) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates. Parts of the novel appeared earlier in various journals but the book in full was first published in 1997. In the book, Oates explores family love and possibilities of human redemption with this compelling story of how one young woman suffers profoundly in the pursuit of love, but manages to emerge safe and whole. "Man crazy" is the label assigned to... read more |
 | Double delight recommended: 0 times published at: 1997 Synopsis: Double Delight (1997) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, published under pseudonym Rosamond Smith. --- Product Description The straitjacket of upright respectability and the anarchy of aroused sexual desire are the twin poles of Rosamond Smith's sensational new psychological thriller—a master writer's nightmare tale of sweet seduction and heartless corruption that is as taut as terror. Terence... read more |
 | We were the Mulvaneys recommended: 0 times published at: 1996 Synopsis: We were the Mulvaneys (1996) is Joyce Carol Oates's 26th novel. It was chosen as part of Oprah's Book Club in 2001. The novel returns to familiar Oates territory: the dysfunctional family. The book is about unraveling of the Mulvaneys, a family living in the small, rural town of Mt. Ephraim, New York, during the later part of the 20th century, are the perfect family: four kids, the owners of a successful... read more |
 | Tenderness recommended: 0 times published at: 1996 Synopsis: Tenderness (1996) is a collection of fifty-seven poems written between 1988-1996 by Joyce Carol Oates. It cover topics ranging from a glimpse into childhood, to a woman's memories of her teenage experiences with men, to reflections on the American obsession with money --- Product Description When Joyce Carol Oates published her first collection of poems, Anonymous Sins, in 1969, the reviewers,... read more |
 | The Temple recommended: 0 times published at: 1996 Synopsis: The Temple (1996) is a short story by the writer Joyce Carol Oates. It is included in the collection American Gothic Tales (1996). The short story is a Joyce Carol Oates and is a prime example how amusing American Gothic Literature is to a reader. The story is presented in the third person narrative. It is about a woman who constantly hears a mystery sound that at first sounded like an animal... read more |
| Will you always love me? recommended: 0 times published at: 1996 Synopsis: Will You Alwrays Love Me and Other Stories (1996) is a collection of shorts by Joyce Carol Oates. Unlike many of Joyce's short story collections, one particular theme does not seem to dominate this book. --- Product Description 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... read more | |
| American gothic tales recommended: 0 times published at: 1996 Synopsis: American Gothic Tales (1996) is a collection edited by Joyce Carol Oates. The introduction was authored by Oates as well. --- Product Description Joyce Carol Oates has a special perspective on the "gothic" in American short fiction, at least partially because her own horror yarns rank on the spine-tingling chart with the masters. She is able to see the unbroken link of the macabre that ties... read more | |
 | First love : a Gothic tale recommended: 0 times published at: 1996 Synopsis: First Love: A Gothic Tale (1996) is a novella by award-winning novelist and essayist Joyce Carol Oates. Book was designed and illustrated by Barry Moser. It tells the story of Joise S_____, a girl who goes to stay at her aunt's mansion in upstate New York. While there, she has an incestuous relationship with her cousin, Jared. The novella deals with two of the more common recurring themes in Oates'... read more |
 | The devil's half-acre recommended: 0 times published at: 1996 Synopsis: Devil's Half-Acre (1996) is a audio book of Joyce Carol Oates's story. It consists of 8 audio casettes and has 11.5 hours of playing time. The story is originally from Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984), second of the counfounding case that detective-hero Xavier Kilgarvan from that book is confronted with. -- Product Description Joyce Carol Oates uses her award-winning talents to spin a masterful... read more |
| The virgin in the Rose Bower recommended: 0 times published at: 1996 Synopsis: The Virgin in the Rose Bower (1996) is a audio book of Joyce Carol Oates's story. It consists of 6 audio casettes and has 8 hours and 45 minutes of playing time. The story is originally from Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984), first of the counfounding case that detective-hero Xavier Kilgarvan from that book is confronted with. --- Product Description In this first part of her Gothic mystery trillogy,... read more |
 | The bloodstained bridal gown recommended: 0 times published at: 1996 Synopsis: The Bloodstained Bridal Gown (1996) is a audio book of Joyce Carol Oates's story. It consists of 6 audio casettes and has 7.5 hours of playing time. The story is originally from Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984), third and the final of the counfounding case that detective-hero Xavier Kilgarvan from that book is confronted with. --- Product Description Joyce Carol Oates' stunning Gothic trilogy... read more |
 | Murder for love murder for women. recommended: 0 times published at: 1996 Synopsis: Murder for Love Murder for Women (1996) is an audiobook that feature stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Sara Paretsky amongst others. Crimes of passion are as old as love itself. A man, a woman, a weapon: it's the perfect for love gone wrong. And Murder for Love: Murder for Women is the perfect and only collection of love stories with a delectable devious twist: Murder. Eight works of short fiction from... read more |
| Demon and Other Tales recommended: 0 times published at: 1996 Synopsis: Demon and Other Tales (1996) is a small collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates published by Necronomicon Press, and illustrated by Jason Eckhardt. --- Product Description "The physical world gives birth to us, nurtures and contains and defines us, is not really our world. It is not the world we would have invented." Thus speaks the narrator of Joyce Carol Oates' tale "The Omen,"... read more |
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