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2BIBLIOGRAPHY of Joyce Carol Oates
 | The perfectionist and other plays recommended: 0 times published at: 1995 Synopsis: The Perfectionist and Other Plays (1995) is a collection of plays by Joyce Carol Oates. The collection consists of two full-length plays, The Perfectionist and Black, and nine one-act plays, most of which have been performed in New York, Los Angeles, Princeton, Frankfurt, and elsewhere. Much like Oates's novels and stories, The Perfectionist and Other Plays is charged with tension, menace, and the... read more |
 | George Bellows: American Artist recommended: 0 times published at: 1995 Synopsis: George Bellows (1995) is an examination of George Bellows by Joyce Carol Oates. A study of his brief but prolific career considers the influences of his early life, examines his more intimate work in portraiture, and offers a perspective on his last work, "The Picket Fence." --- Product Description Though he was the most famous and most highly regarded American artist of his era, George Bellows,... read more |
 | Corn Maiden recommended: 0 times published at: 1995 Synopsis: Corn Maiden (2005) is a novella by Joyce Carol Oates. It was included in volume 4 Transgressions, a collection of shorts edited by New York Times bestselling author and mystery legend Ed McBain. The story starts when a twelve-year-old girl is abducted in a small New York town and the crime starts a spiral of destruction and despair. ... read more |
| I, the Juror recommended: 0 times published at: 1995 Synopsis: I, the Juror (1995) is essay by Joyce Carol Oates. It recalls her first experience serving as a juror. ... read more |
 | Zombie recommended: 0 times published at: 1995 Synopsis: Zombie (1995) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates which explores the mind of a serial killer. It was based on the life of Jeffrey Dahmer. Product Description He is a problem for his professor father and his loving mother, though of course they do not believe the charge of sexual molestation of a minor that got him in that bit of trouble. He is a challenge for his court-appointed psychiatrist, who... read more |
 | You Can't Catch Me recommended: 0 times published at: 1995 Synopsis: You Can't Catcg Me (1995) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, published under pseudonym Rosamond Smith. Story is about a genteel Southern bachelor Tristram Heade. When seaching for a rare book in Philadelphia, Tristram is confused when everyone mistakes him for notorious playboy Angus T. Markham. The situation that explodes when a beautiful woman approaches him with an irresistible offer. --- ... read more |
 | What I lived for recommended: 0 times published at: 1994 Synopsis: What I Lived For (1994) is Joyce Carol Oates's twenty-third novel. The novel offers a powerful and insightful portrait of an unforgettable and deeply troubled man, Corky Corcoran. Corcoran, on Memorial Day 1992, discovers why he is so driven to consume food, sex, and drink and to demand attention and respect in an attempt to escape the past. Novel explores the complex dynamics of these driving ambitions.... read more |
 | Haunted : tales of the grotesque recommended: 0 times published at: 1994 Synopsis: Haunted (1994) is a collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates. The book features 16 horror stories including reworking of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. The stories were written between 1980-1993. --- Awards World Fantasy Awards, Collection finalist, 1995 Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1993: "The Model" National Magazine Awards, 1993 finalist: "The Premonition" Year's Best Fantasy... read more |
 | "Where are you going, where have you been?" recommended: 0 times published at: 1994 Synopsis: Introduction / Elaine Showalter -- Chronology -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- Background to the story. The Pied Piper of Tucson : he cruised in a golden car, looking for the action / Don Moser -- "Where are you going, where have you been?" and Smooth Talk : short story into film / Joyce Carol Oates -- Critical essays. Existential allegory : Joyce Carol Oates's "Where... read more |
 | Foxfire : confessions of a girl gang recommended: 0 times published at: 1993 Synopsis: Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (1993) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates about a group of teenage girls in upstate New York in the 1950s who form a gang called Foxfire. The novel recounts in retrospect the destructive sisterhood of a group of teenage girls in the 1950s. The story is pieced together from former Foxfire gang member Maddy Wirtz's memories and journal and takes place in the industrial... read more |
| Norman and the killer recommended: 0 times published at: 1992 Synopsis: Normal and the Killer (1992) is a movie adapted from Joyce Carol Oates's short story by the same name. The short story was included ine the Upon the sweeping flood; and other stories . ... read more |
 | Where is Here? recommended: 0 times published at: 1992 Synopsis: Where is Here? (1992) is a collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates. --- Product Description In dramatic, tightly focused narratives charged with tension, menace, and the shock of the unexpected, Where Is Here? examines a world in which ordinary life is electrified by the potential for sudden change. Domestic violence, fear of abandonment and betrayal, and the obsession... read more |
 | The Oxford book of American short stories recommended: 0 times published at: 1992 Synopsis: The Oxford Book of American Short Story (1992) is, as name indicates, an anthology of American Short Stories. The book was edited by Joyce Carol Oates and the introduction was also authored by Oates. --- Product Description "How ironic," Joyce Carol Oates writes in her introduction to this marvelous collection, "that in our age of rapid mass-production, and the easy proliferation of consumer products,... read more |
 | Black water recommended: 0 times published at: 1992 Synopsis: Black Water (1992) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates. The novel deals with gender politics in America. It is one of the series of novel Oates authored around this time that deals differing aspects of American society. Others were American Appetites (1989), on affluence; Because It Is Bitter and Because It Is My Heart (1990), on racism; I Lock the Door on Myself (1990), about alienation;... read more |
 | Snake eyes recommended: 0 times published at: 1992 Synopsis: Snake Eyes (1992) is a thriller by Joyce Carol Oates, published under pseudonym Rosamond Smith. --- Product Description It is a tattoo—only a tattoo. A tattoo of a serpent with a human face on the sinewy arm of Lee Roy Sears, a convicted killer whose death sentence has been commuted to life imprisonment, thanks to the intervention of an idealistic young lawyer, Michael O'Meara. Now, ten years... read more |
| The Sophisticated cat : a gathering of stories, poems, and miscellaneous writings about cats recommended: 0 times published at: 1992 Synopsis: The Sophiscated Cat (1992) is an anthology edited and compiled by Joyce Carol Oates and Daniel Halpern. Preface was also written by Oates. It includes classic stories and poems about cats features the work of Balzac, Chekhov, Colette, Poe, Twain, Runyon, Hemingway, Oates, Adams, LeGuin, Keats, Dickinson, Eliot, Zola, Saki, Wodehouse, and others. --- Product Description - from Celestial Timepiece... read more | |
 | Twelve plays recommended: 0 times published at: 1991 Synopsis: Twelve Plays (1991) is collection of dramas by 1970 National Book Award for Fiction winner Joyce Carol Oates. --- Product Description Only a select number of authors have been able to master the art of writing both fiction and drama. As Joyce Carol Oates, one of the major novelists and short story writers of our time, remarks, writing a play is "something else entirely." This superb collection... read more |
 | In darkest America : two plays recommended: 0 times published at: 1991 Synopsis: In Darkest America (1991) are two plays by Joyce Carol Oates: Tone clusters amd The eclipse. ... read more |
 | I stand before you naked recommended: 0 times published at: 1991 Synopsis: I stand before you naked (1991) was a play writen by Joyce Carol Oates. It is consisted by 10 monologues, each being confessional reflection. --- Monologues I STAND BEFORE YOU NAKED LITTLE BLOOD-BUTTON THE BOY WIFE OF . . . THE ORANGE NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST DARLING I'M TELLING YOU WEALTHY LADY GOOD MORNING! GOOD AFTERNOON! SLOW MOTION PREGNANT I STAND BEFORE YOU NAKED ... read more |
 | The rise of life on earth recommended: 0 times published at: 1991 Synopsis: The rise of life on earth (1991) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates. The novel is about life Kathleen Hennessey, a women with a troubled childhood that grows up foster homes in Detroit and how her upbringing takes toll for rest of her life. The novel is a part of series of novels by Oates that covers different aspects of American society. The novel's theme is poverty.It was be preceded by American... read more |
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