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2BIBLIOGRAPHY of Joyce Carol Oates
 | "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 |
| (Woman) writer : occasions and opportunities recommended: 0 times published at: 1988 Synopsis: (Woman) Writer: Occasions and Opportunities (1988) is a collection of essays by Joyce Carol Oates. Twenty-seven essays touch upon everything from Moby Dick to Boxing, cover literati from Emily Dickinson to Kafka, and take up the fiery debate over differences and similarities between male and female writers. --- From the Dust Jacket - by way of Celestial Timepiece Joyce Carol Oates has a... read more | |
| A Bloodsmoor romance recommended: 0 times published at: 1982 Synopsis: A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates. The book was described by Oates as "the other side of Little Women" and is a parody of the nineteenth-century romance. In Pennsylvania's Bloodsmoor Valley, the five Zinn sisters, daughters of an eccentric inventor, search for love and, when Miss Deirdre Zinn sails away in an outlaw balloon, move headlong into an age of time machines, the... 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 | |
 | 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 |
| A sentimental education : stories recommended: 0 times published at: 1980 Synopsis: A Sentimental Education (1980) is a collection of short stories and novellas by 1970 National Book Award for Fiction winner Joyce Carol Oates. The stories explores the puzzles and potentials of passionate love. They include tales of a divorcee's hasty marriage, a rich executive's affair with a wayward girl, and the erotic love between two cousins --- Product Description - from Celestial Timepiece... read more | |
 | After the wreck, I picked myself up, spread my wings, and flew away recommended: 0 times published at: 2006 Synopsis: After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away (2006) is a young adult novel written by Joyce Carol Oates. It is her fourth novel for young adults, following Big Mouth and Ugly Girl (2002), Freaky Green Eyes (2003), and Sexy (2005). --- Product Description In the raw was how the world felt now. My feelings were raw, my thoughts were raw and hurtful like knife blades. . .... read more |
 | All the good people I've left behind recommended: 0 times published at: 1979 Synopsis: All the Good People I've Left Behind (1978) is a collection of short stories by 1970 National Book Award for Fiction winner Joyce Carol Oates. The Blood-Swollen Landscape was a prized story in 1976 The O Henry Awards. --- Contents The Leap High Intoxication The Tryst Blood-Swollen Landscape Eye-Witness The Hallucination Sentimental Journey Walled City All the Good People... 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 |
| 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 | |
 | 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 |
| Angel of light recommended: 0 times published at: 1981 Synopsis: Angel of Light (1981) is a novel by 1970 National Book Award Winner Joyce Carol Oates. It is about Maurice Halleck, a minister of justice accused of corruption, dies an apparent suicide in a car accident, his children, believing he was betrayed by their mother and her lover, seek revenge --- From Dust Jacket - by way of Celestial Timepiece In her highly acclaimed novel Bellefleur, Joyce Carol... 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 |
 | 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 |
 | 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 |
| 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 | |
 | 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 |
| 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 | |
 | Black girl/white girl : a novel recommended: 0 times published at: 2006 Synopsis: Black Girl / White Girl (2006) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, first published by Ecco. The book takes the form of an untitled 300 page manuscript written in 1990 by Generva Meade, a white historian, who truthfully recounts the events which happened during her freshman year at a prestigious liberal college in 1974-75, and Meade's own paternal family history which uncomfortable spans the gap between... 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 |
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