![]() | By the north gate. recommended: 0 times published at: 1963 Synopsis: By the North Gate (1963) is a short story collection and first book published by Joy Carol Oates.---Review from Celestine TimepiecesBY THE NORTH GATE introduces a new young American writer of singular talent. In her first collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates that she is both vital and sensitive—sometimes ironic, sometimes bitter, often violent, but always a writer with something... read more |
![]() | With shuddering fall. recommended: 0 times published at: 1964 Synopsis: With Shuddering Fall (1964) is the first nove and the second bookl by Joyce Carol Oates, published by Vanguard Press. The novel tells the story of two people, Shar, 30 year old racing driver, and Karen, 17 year old girl, in a violent and obsessive love affair of high tension and no control.At time of this writing, the book is out-of-print.... read more |
| The Sweet Enemy recommended: 0 times published at: 1965 Synopsis: The Sweet Enemy (1965) was off-Broadway play written by Joyce Carol Oates. She wrote the play with encouragement of Frank Corsaro.... read more | |
![]() | Upon the sweeping flood; and other stories. recommended: 0 times published at: 1966 Synopsis: Upon the Sweeping Flood; and Other Stories (1966) is the second collection of short stories published by Joyce Carrol Oates. ---Product DescriptionIn UPON THE SWEEPING FLOOD, Joyce Carol Oates again brings to the short story the prodigious talent that won her such critical acclaim in By the North Gate. Here are stories that are intense, ironic, sinister, and violent, reflecting incisively the mores... read more |
| A garden of earthly delights. recommended: 0 times published at: 1967 Synopsis: A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967) is Joyce Carol Oates's second novel. It is the first book of "The Wonderland Quartet." The book follows one Clara Walpole’s ill-fated life and the four men who shaped it. Clara’s father, a bitter migrant farm worker, Lowry, who whisks the teenage Clara away and tempts her with love, Revere, a wealthy married business man who gives Clara stability and Swan, Clara’s... read more | |
![]() | Women in Love & Other Poems recommended: 0 times published at: 1968 Synopsis: Women in Love & Other Poems (1968) is Joyce Carol Oates's first collection of poems. The book was limited to one hundred and seventy-six copies. The type is Palatino, the paper is Hayle, and the hand-sewn wrappers are an oriental tea chest paper. One hundred and fifty copies numbered 1-150 are for sale. Twenty-six copies lettered A-Z are not for sale. All copies are signed by the author.... read more |
| Expensive people. recommended: 0 times published at: 1968 Synopsis: Expensive People (1968) is the thrid novel by Joyce Carol Oates and the second of the Wonderland Quartet. It was nominated for National Book Award for Fiction.---Product DesciptionJoyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In Expensive People, Oates takes a provocative and suspenseful look at the... read more | |
![]() | Anonymous sins & other poems. recommended: 0 times published at: 1969 Synopsis: Anonymous Sins & Other Poems (1969) is the second collection of poems published by Joyce Carol Oates. It was later collected into Love and its Derangements and Other Poems along with Love and Its Derangements and Angel Fire.---From the Dust Jacket - from Celestial TimepieceJoyce Carol Oates is one of the best known young writers in America today. Her most notable success has been as a fiction writer.... read more |
| Them. recommended: 0 times published at: 1969 Synopsis: Them (1969) is the third novel in The Wonderland Quartet by Joyce Carol Oates. It won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1970. It is a chronicle of a blue-collar Detroit family from the Depression through the Detroit race riots.---From the Dust Jacket - by Celestial TimepieceLoretta Wendall, her daughter Maureen, and her son Jules are "them"—three characters held together by corroding hatred and... read more | |
![]() | Love and its derangements; poems. recommended: 0 times published at: 1970 Synopsis: Love and Its Derangements (1970) is a collection of poems by Joyce Carol Oates. It was later grouped into a collection Love and Its Derangements and Other Poems (1974) with Anonymous Sins and Other Poems (1969) and Angel Fire (1973).---Prodcut DescriptionHere is an exciting new collection of poems by one of America's most brilliant and versatile writers. In this volume Joyce Carol Oates reveals the... read more |
![]() | Cupid & Psyche recommended: 0 times published at: 1970 Synopsis: Cupid & Psyche (1970) is a short story by Joyce Carol Oates. The first edition was limited to 226 copies and only 200 copies went up for the sale. Every book was signed by the author.... read more |
![]() | The wheel of love, and other stories. recommended: 0 times published at: 1970 Synopsis: The Wheel of Love, and Other Stories (1970) is a collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates. It is a collection of twenty stories that explores the many moods and emotions of love. It is the first a series of short story collections dealing with the vagaries of love. It would be followed by Marriage and Infidelities (1972), The Seduction (1975), and Crossing the Border (1976).---ContentIn the... read more |
| Wonderland; a novel. recommended: 1 times published at: 1971 Synopsis: Wonderland (1971) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates. It is the final novel of The Wonderland Quartet, a series of four novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. It is also the first of the series of novels Oates wrote dealing with various professions, starting here with medicine. It would be followed by Do with Me What You Will (1973), on law; Assassins (1975),... read more | |
| Marriages and infidelities; short stories. recommended: 0 times published at: 1972 Synopsis: Marriages and Infidelities (1972) is a collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates. It is one of the four collections of short stories Oates published between 1970 through 1976 that deals with the vagaries of love. Others are The Wheel of Love (1970), The Seduction (1975), and Crossing the Border (1976).---From the Dust Jacket - by way of Celestial TimepieceMARRIAGES AND INFIDELITIES is Joyce... read more | |
![]() | The edge of impossibility: tragic forms in literature. recommended: 0 times published at: 1972 Synopsis: The Edge of Impossibility (1972) is a collection of essays by 1970 National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates.---From the Dust Jacket - by way of Celestial TimepieceIn these essays the winner of the National Book Award (for her novel Them) and countless awards and accolades for her short stories turns her attention to the study of tragic forms in literature, examining such writers as Shakespeare,... read more |
![]() | Do with me what you will. recommended: 0 times published at: 1973 Synopsis: Do With Me What You Will (1973) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates. --- From the Dust Jacket DO WITH ME WHAT YOU WILL brings to life in Elena Howe the year's most transfixing heroine. A novel with a contemporary setting reflecting today's social upheavals and shifting morality, it is, in the author's words, "a love story that concentrates upon the tension between two American 'pathways' : the way... read more |
![]() | Angel fire; poems. recommended: 0 times published at: 1973 Synopsis: Angel Fire (1970) is a collection of poems by Joyce Carol Oates. It was later grouped into a collection Love and Its Derangements and Other Poems (1974) with Anonymous Sins and Other Poems (1969) and Love and It's Derangements (1970).---From the Dust Jacket - from Celestial TimepieceIn this third volume of poetry, Joyce Carol Oates offers her readers another experience of her uniquely personal—and... read more |
| Scenes from American life; contemporary short fiction. recommended: 0 times published at: 1973 Synopsis: Scenes from American Life (1973) was a collection of stories edited by Joyce Carol Oates. Oates also penned the introduction to the book. Introduction can be read on Celestial Timepiece. --- Content Jesse Hill Ford : The Bitter Bread John Updike : Flight Alistair MacLeod : The Boat Peter Taylor : The Fancy Woman James Alan McPherson : Of Cabbages and Kings Willard Marsh : Mending... read more | |
![]() | The hostile sun; the poetry of D.H. Lawrence. recommended: 0 times published at: 1973 Synopsis: The Hostile Sun (1972) is an essay on D H Lawrence by 1970 National Book Award Winner Joyce Carol Oates. It was a two part essay originally published in American Poetry Review and Massachusetts Review in 1972.... read more |
| A posthumous sketch recommended: 0 times published at: 1973 Synopsis: A Posthumous Sketch (1973) is a prose poem by Joyce Carol Oates. It was contained in Fabulous Beast (1975). ... read more |