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    2009/07/18Bing Busby recommended The road by Cormac McCarthy.
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    2009/07/18Bing Busby added a quote to Joyce Carol Oates.
    Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
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    2009/07/17Bing Busby updated Synopsis of A Bloodsmoor romance.
    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 spirit world, and passion. It includes an appearance by a character named Mark Twain.

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    Product Description - from Celestial Timepiece
    Joyce Carol Oates's Bellefleur was hailed by critics as "a masterpiece" and "a gothic of major proportions." Now, here is her version of the nineteenth-century romance. Steeped in Victoriana and told by a demure, virgin narrator, A Bloodsmoor Romance is an ingenious blend of myth and history, humor and profundity, the sublime and the grotesque. It is a rich account of one family's "ignominious" history and provides us with a singular vision of America's formative years.

    It all begins when Miss Deirdre Zinn, adopted daughter of inventor John Quincy Zinn, is abducted in broad daylight by "an outlaw balloon of sinister black silken hue, manned by an unidentified pilot." Until this fateful episode, the Zinns were not unlike other families with five marriageable daughters who settled in the Bloodsmoor Valley of Pennsylvania. But as young Deirdre sails off to infamy, the Zinn family has already begun a process of transformation that is as multifarious as it is extreme.

    Constance Philippa is next to make her escape from the cloistered world of Bloodsmoor: she behaves scandalously on her wedding night, never to be seen again in quite the same shapely guise. Malvinia, seduced from her home by the lure of the stage, attains the heights of worldly acclaim—and the amorous attentions of a dandy named Mark Twain. Octavia, the least rebellious of the sisters, finds her "reward" close to home; while Samantha, the "brainy" one, devotes herself to her father's great work—with unexpected consequences.

    In the world of A Bloodsmoor Romance, time machines run rampant, Transcendentalism gives way to the Spirit World, and decorum and etiquette fall to the exigencies of the passions. Amid yards of lace, sweet songs, and hope chests filled with twelve dozen of everything, the Zinn daughters—and America—are thrust headlong into the modern age. This is the tale our classics never dared reveal, the other side of Little Women as only Joyce Carol Oates can tell it.
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    2009/07/17Bing Busby added a tags to A Bloodsmoor romance.
    Kennicott, Samantha, Deirdre, perpetual-motion machine, John Quincy Zinn, Philadelphia, Octavia, Mark Twain, mediumship, Deirdre's, Zinn's, Spiritualist, Madame Blavatsky, Fairbanks House, Constance Philippa, Octagonal House, widow's peak, Mainz, Charles Guiteau, Nahum
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    2009/07/17Bing Busby updated editions for A Bloodsmoor romance.

    Added a new edition

    • Publisher: Warner Books
    • Date: 1983
    • Book ID: OL:OL21836196M


    Added a new edition

    • Publisher: J. Cape
    • Date: 1983
    • Book ID: OL:OL15512241M, ISBN13:9780224029438, ISBN10:0224029436


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    • Publisher: Moveable Feast Pr
    • Date: January 1982
    • Book ID: OL:OL9383360M, ISBN10:9998703069, ISBN13:9789998703063


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    • Publisher: Dutton
    • Date: 1982
    • Book ID: OL:OL3482999M, ISBN13:9780525241126, ISBN10:0525241124

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    2009/07/17Bing Busby updated Synopsis of Invisible woman : new & selected poems, 1970-1982.
    Invisible Woman: New & Selected Poems 1970-1972 (1982) was a collection of poems by Joyce Carol Oates. It was part of Ontario Press Review Press Poetry Series.

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    Product Description - from Centenial Timepiece
    Joyce Carol Oates published her first collection of poems, Anonymous Sins, in 1969. The reviewers, who had long recognized her talent as a writer of prose fiction, were quick to see that she was equally talented as a poet. "At the very least," stated Library Journal, "Miss Oates is a major writer; she may already be a great one." Anonymous Sins was followed in the next decade by four more volumes, each representing a distinct advance in Oates's career as a poet: Love and Its Derangements (1970), Angel Fire (1973), The Fabulous Beasts (1975), and Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money (1978). Invisible Woman brings together thematically appropriate earlier poems as a kind of coda to Oates's most recent gathering. In these poems exploring love, bereavement, the paradoxical nature of "invisibility," as well as other aspects of life, we hear a voice that is both detached and penetrating, analytical and passionate. Invisible Woman will firmly establish Joyce Carol Oates as a distinctive voice in contemporary poetry.

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    Content
    I. SUN-TRUTHS
    • Invisible Woman
    • The Stone Orchard
    • Nightless Nights
    • The Wasp
    • Last Things
    • Season of Peril
    • Baby
    • A Miniature Passion
    • Sun-Truths
    • The Mourning
    • The Mourning II
    • The Loss
    • Poem Jubilant in Place of Mourning
    II. THE FORBIDDEN
    • The Forbidden
    • Honeymoon
    • There Are Northern Lakes . . . .
    • Tachycardiac Seizure
    • The Proofs of God
    • Another
    • Leavetaking, at Dusk
    • Night Driving, New Year's Eve
    • Betrayal
    • Good Morning
    • Query, Not To Be Answered
    • Appetite and Terror on the Wide White Sands of Western Florida
    • Psalm
    • Snowfall
    • Snow-Drunk in Ontario
    • Footprints

    III. FIRST DARK
    • First Dark
    • Autistic Child, No Longer Child
    • Jesus, Heal Me
    • Back Country
    • First Death
    • Celestial Timepiece
    • F---
    • The Present Tense

    IV. A REPORT TO AN ACADEMY
    • Ecstasy of Flight
    • Ecstasy of Motion
    • Boredom
    • Ecstasy of Boredom at the Berlin Wall
    • The Great Egg
    • The Child-Bride
    • High-Wire Artist
    • Homage to Virginia Woolf
    • A Report to an Academy

    V. SELECTED POEMS 1970-1978
    • Abandoned Airfield, 1977
    • Dreaming America
    • Last Harvest
    • Visionary Adventures of a Wild Dog Pack
    • Fertilizing the Continent
    • After Terror . . . .
    • "Promiscuity"
    • The Suicide
    • Firing a Field
    • Shelley at Viareggio
    • Domestic Miracles
    • How Gentle
    • Skyscape
    • Ice Age

    Afterword
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    2009/07/17Bing Busby added a tags to Invisible woman : new & selected poems, 1970-1982.
    oates, poems, national book award winner
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    2009/07/17Bing Busby edited links for Invisible woman : new & selected poems, 1970-1982.
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    2009/07/16Bing Busby updated Synopsis of Contraries : essays.
    Contraries (1981) is a collection of essays by 1970 National Book Award for Fiction winner Joyce Carol Oates. The collection of literary essays provides Oates's response to works such as Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Possessed, and D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love. A second collection, The Profane Art: Essays and Reviews, would follow in 1983.

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    From the Dust Jacket - from Celestial Timepiece
    In seven provocative essays, Joyce Carol Oates confronts the contradictions to which readers respond emotionally in great works of literature. Previously published but never before collected in one volume, these essays were written over a period of seventeen years. Imbued with her own emotional responses and enlivened by her personal experiences as a writer, the book takes a fresh approach to readings of familiar works. She reappraises the paradoxes in Conrad's Nostromo; the parable of the fall in Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray; tragic rites in Dostoevsky's The Possessed; the appeal of ballads as a literary genre in English and Scottish traditional ballads; the apocalyptic vision of Lawrence's Women in Love; tragic vision in King Lear; and comedy in Joyce's Ulysses.

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    Contents
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    2009/07/16Bing Busby updated Synopsis of Angel of light.
    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

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    From Dust Jacket - by way of Celestial Timepiece
    In her highly acclaimed novel Bellefleur, Joyce Carol Oates traced the American dream to its origin deep within our individual imaginations. In Angel of Light, she explores our political heritage and gives us a novel of mounting drama with all the import of Greek Tragedy. It is a story of loyalty, betrayal, revenge, and finally, forgiveness.

    Maurice Halleck, Director of the Commission for the Ministry of Justice, is accused of wrongdoing and then dies in a suspicious car accident. A suicide note and confession are found. But are they legitimate, or was he coerced into writing them before he was taken out to be killed? Although the official investigation finds Maurie guilty and his death a suicide, his children Kirsten and Owen are convinced he was betrayed. They have reason to believe their own mother, Isabel de Benavente, and her lover (Maurie's closest friend and second-in-command), Nick Martens, are involved. Joined together in a blood pact, they vow to uncover the truth and avenge their father's death.

    The Hallecks are direct descendants of John Brown, who was hanged in 1859, a martyr in the struggle against slavery. "He is an Angel of Light," Thoreau said of him. Thoreau also said, "I do not wish to kill or be killed but I can forsee circumstances in which both of these things would be by me unavoidable." This is the state of mind into which Kirsten and her brother Owen Halleck are driven by events near at hand but beyond their control.

    Joyce Carol Oates weaves a strand of history throughout—the quest for justice against those in power begins with America's founding—but dominating the novel is the story of this highly placed family whose private lives are played out in a public arena.
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    2009/07/16Bing Busby edited links for Angel of light.
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    Isabel says, Maurie Halleck, Brean Down, Washington, Maurie's, Bitterfeld, Schweppenheiser, canoe, Kirsten says, Dunvegan, Nuremberg Code, Osawatomie, John Brown, Nick says, Black September, Lynn Fischer, Owen says, Nick Martens, tennis, Loughrea
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    2009/07/16Bing Busby updated editions for Angel of light.

    Added a new edition

    • Publisher: Cape
    • Date: 1981
    • Book ID: OL:OL17404329M, ISBN13:9780224029278, ISBN10:0224029274


    Added a new edition

    • Publisher: Warner Books
    • Date: 1982
    • Book ID: OL:OL18642223M


    Added a new edition

    • Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
    • Date: December 12, 1988
    • Book ID: OL:OL7686366M, ISBN10:0517421852, ISBN13:9780517421857


    Added a new edition

    • Publisher: "Raduga,"
    • Date: 1987
    • Book ID: OL:OL15396993M

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    2009/07/16Bing Busby updated Synopsis of Three plays.
    Three Plays (1980) is a collection of plays by by 1970 National Book Award for Fiction winner Joyce Carol Oates.

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    Dust-Jacket Blurb from Celestial Timepiece
    - a doomed but defiant young girl, a runaway, is victimized by men, perhaps with her own compliance

    - a violent fued erupts in a black neighborhood, claiming a number of lives

    - the Maniac Bobbie Gotteson, called by the press "the most appealing" of recent mass murderers, submits to his outrageous trial in a California courtroom

    Alfred Kazin has spoken of Joyce Carol Oates' "sweetly brutal sense of what American experience is really like," and each of these original and disturbing plays explores a facet of that experience. When Ontological Proof of My existence was presented in New York City Newsweek critic Jack Kroll spoke of its "flaring life" and its power in reminding us that we are all characters in the melodrama of contemporary crisis.

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    Content
    • Ontological proof of my existence
    • Miracle play
    • The triumph of the spider monkey
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    2009/07/16Bing Busby edited links for Three plays.
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    2009/07/16Bing Busby added a tags to Three plays.
    MIRACLE PLAY, actin, niggers, El Portal, SHELLEY, take you apart, machete, Jesus, can-opener, hate hate hate, electric chair, Skinner's room, Momma, Ontological Proof, Spider Monkey, Titus Skinner, PROSECUTOR, somethin, guitar, JOYCE CAROL OATES
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    2009/07/16Bing Busby updated Synopsis of A sentimental education : stories.
    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

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    Product Description - from Celestial Timepiece
    The publication of Bellefleur has brought Joyce Carol Oates—a lready established as one of America's most significant contemporary writers—the broad readership her wonderfully rewarding work deserves. In this new book, she explores the secrets of the human heart in superbly crafted stories and a novella.

    Whether writing about women or men, young or old, she makes us witness to those moments of extremity when the passions burn brightest, when desire and reality collide: a vain divorcee too hastily marries her young lover; a radio program director, witness to a shooting, becomes obsessed with his own mortality; a professor's mild manner somehow inevitably leads to violence; an eminent poet finds her luminous past shattered by the revelations of her lover's son.

    Perhaps nowhere has the region where love borders violence been so fully explored as in the title novella. It is an exquisite portrayal of the erotic love that flowers when nineteen-year-old Duncan spends a summer on the Maine coast with his younger cousin Antoinette. In the vastness of inexperience, imagination provides the only boundaries. "A Sentimental Education" is charged with an intensity which many of us experienced at the edge of adolescence, but few have remembered so vividly since.

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    Content
    • Queen of the Night
    • The Precipice
    • The Tryst
    • A Middle-Class Education
    • In the Autumn of the Year
    • A Sentimental Education
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