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2BIBLIOGRAPHY of Joyce Carol Oates
 | 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 |
| Bellefleur recommended: 1 times published at: 1980 Synopsis: Bellefleur (1980) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates. The novel is Oates's modern take on the gothic nove. It follows the prescribed formula for a Gothic multigenerational saga, utilizing supernatural occurrences while tracing the lineage of an exploitative American family. The book follows a family of psychics living in the Adirondack Mountains, where time seems variable--stretching back thousands... 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 |
 | Because it is bitter, and because it is my heart recommended: 0 times published at: 1990 Synopsis: Because it is bitter and because it is my heart (1990) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates. In the nobel, Oates examines race relations and violence in America through the experiences of a black teenager and his white friend from 1956 to 1963. The novel is a part of series of novels by Oates that covers different aspects of American society. The novel's theme is racism. It was be preceded by American... read more |
 | You must remember this recommended: 0 times published at: 1987 Synopsis: You Must Remember This (1987) ia novel by Joyce Carol Oates. It was one of the series of the novels that Oates published that dealt with the lives of the contemporary women in America along with Solstice (1985) and Marya : A Life (1984). Under the respectable surface of an ordinary white-collar family in the conformist 1950s, an obsessive love breaks every convention as it seeks fulfillment.... 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 |
 | American appetites recommended: 0 times published at: 1989 Synopsis: American Appetites (1989) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates. Glynnis McCullough, terribly drunk, quarrels with her husband Ian and falls through a window to her death--an accident leading to his conviction on a murder charge and their suburban community's shock. The novel is a first of series of novels that covers different aspects of American society. The novel's theme is affluence. It would be followed... 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 |
 | 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 |
 | Marya : a life recommended: 0 times published at: 1986 Synopsis: Marya : A Life (1984) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates. It was one of the series of the novels that Oates published that dealt with the lives of the contemporary women in America along with Solstice (1985) and You Must Remember This (1987). In the book Marya Knauer,a renowned and respected author haunted by the traumas of a childhood in which her father died violently, attempts to locate... 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 |
 | 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 |
 | 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 |
 | Son of the morning : a novel recommended: 0 times published at: 1978 Synopsis: Son of the Morning (1978) is a novel by 1970 National Book Award for Fiction winner Joyce Carol Oates. It was chosen as a New York Times Notable Books of the Year. --- Product Description - By way of Celestial Timepiece SON OF THE MORNING is the story of Nathanael Vickery conceived in sin but blessed with evangelical purpose. For him, even as a child of five, God is near; as a young boy... read more |
 | Mysteries of Winterthurn : a novel recommended: 0 times published at: 1984 Synopsis: Mysteries of Winterhurn (1984) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates. In the novel, Oates adapts the gothic mystery genre to feminist concerns in this novel, which shows the plight of nineteenth-century women. Characters include domineering and sadistic males such as Erasmus Kilgarven, who commits incest with his daughter Georgina; she becomes the novel's heroine when she publishes her poetry and stands... read more |
 | Unholy loves : a novel recommended: 0 times published at: 1979 Synopsis: Unholy Loves (1979) is a novel by 1970 National Book Award for Fiction winner Joyce Carol Oates. It looks at the lives of the men and women of a prestigious upstate college, including Albert St. Dennis, Professor of Poetry, and the people he meets-Brigit, a divorcee, and Alexis, a pianist and composer. --- Product Description In UNHOLY LOVES, Joyce Carol Oates turns her piercing eye upon the men... read more |
 | The assassins : a book of hours recommended: 0 times published at: 1975 Synopsis: The Assassins: A Book of Hours (1975) is a novel by 1970 National Book Award for Fiction winner Joyce Carol Oates. It is a psychological tale which dramatizes the effects of the murder of a conservative politician on his wife and two brothers. --- From Dust Jacket - by way of Celestial Timepiece When a bullet strikes a powerful political figure, when the burial rites are over and done 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 |
 | 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 |
 | I lock my door upon myself recommended: 0 times published at: 1990 Synopsis: I Lock My Door Upon Myself (1990) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates. The story takes place in turn-of-the-20th-century, upstate New York. A strange, beautiful child who wanders the countryside like a sleepwalker is married off to a coarse, much older farmer. Bitter and increasingly estranged, she falls in love with a tall, black, itinerant water diviner. When the doomed affair ends tragically, she withdraws... read more |
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