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    2009/07/23Yoshitaka Ito updated Synopsis of Reading the fights.
    Reading the Fights (1988) is a celebration and analysis of boxing by writers such as A.J. Liebling, Norman Mailer, Gay Talese, Pete Hamill, Edward Hoagland, Joyce Carol Oates, and others. It was compiled and edited by 1970 National Book Award for Fiction winner Joyce Carol Oates and Daniel Halpern.

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    Product Description - From Celestial Timepiece
    Your grandfather wished he'd seen Dempsey. Your father wished he'd seen Joe Louis or Rocky Marciano. Now don't miss Joyce Carol Oates, Daniel Halpern, and other heavyweights in this classic work on the fight game.

    Gerald Early, A.J. Liebling, Norman Mailer, Pete Hamill, and Gay Talese are among the world-class writers who describe and dissect the most controversial of all sports in terms of boxing history, traditions, ideals, and practitioners. Among the matches analyzed: Marciano-Moore, Frazier-Ali, Leonard-Duran, Bramble-Mancini, and many more. Included also are personal recollections of a boxer's training, examination of the poetics of machismo, and a classic interview with Cus D'Amato.

    Though Joyce Carol Oates says she could entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing in many unsettling respects, these writers do not see boxing as a symbol for something else. Boxing is boxing. As Ms. Oates makes plain, each match is a story—"a unique and highly condensed drama without words. Boxers are there to establish an absolute experience, a public accounting of the outermost limits of their being: they will know, as few of us can know of ourselves, what physical and psychic power they possess—of how much, or how little, they are capable."

    "It is for those of us," the editors write, "who, like Hugh McIlvanney, believe that boxing, with even its myriad ambiguities, offers a thrill 'as pure and basic as a heartbeat.'"

    "Why are you a boxer?" Irish featherweight champion Barry McGuigan was asked. "I can't be a poet," he replied. "I can't tell stories."

    "Boxing is a sport to which all other sports aspire." —George Foreman

    "I ain't never liked violence." —Sugar Ray Robinson

    "The fight for survival is the fight." —Rocky Graziano
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    Floyd Patterson, Angelo Dundee, boxer, Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey, Archie Moore, Sugar Ray Leonard, Freddie Brown, Cus D'Amato, Johnny Bratton, Rocky Marciano, Fighting Marine, A. J. Liebling, Joe Frazier, Roberto Duran, Sonny Liston, Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Johnny Owen, Benny Leonard
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    2009/07/23Yoshitaka Ito updated editions for Reading the fights.

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    • Publisher: Prentice Hall Press
    • Date: 1990
    • Book ID: OL:OL2220072M, ISBN13:9780137611492, ISBN10:0137611498

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    2009/07/23Yoshitaka Ito updated Synopsis of (Woman) writer : occasions and opportunities.
    (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.

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    From the Dust Jacket - by way of Celestial Timepiece
    Joyce Carol Oates has a preeminent place among the novelists and short story writers of our time, but she is also a poet, a playwright, and a brilliant writer of nonfiction as the present collection amply confirms.

    The thirty-five essays in (Woman) Writer were originally published in the most diverse of sources—from Antaeus and Art & Antiques to The New York Times and Life—and the subjects show an astonishing breadth of interests—from "Moby Dick: An American Book of Wonders" to "State-of-the-Art Car: The Ferrari Testarossa." There are significant studies of Emily Dickinson, Kafka, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hemingway, Charlotte Bronte, and Mary Shelley. There are dissenting opinions on Nature and on Food (the gourmet version). Appreciations of the watercolors of Winslow Homer and the boxing paintings of George Bellows. Vivid evocations of Budapest and Detroit. A portrait report on Mike Tyson and his chapionship bout in Las Vegas. And certain to provoke a variety of reactions, an astringent but objective consideration of the difficulties that confront a (woman) writer—among them (men) writers, from whom Oates quotes with quite devastating effect.

    The quality of these essays is such as would make the reputation of any writer. In fact, Joyce Carol Oates is already a major literary presence entering upon her greatest period of fame and achievement, and this book should prove indispensable.

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    Contents
    Preface: Occasions and Opportunities

    1. Does The Writer Exist?
    • Beginnings
    • (Woman) Writer: Theory and Practice
    • The Art of Self-Criticism
    • The Dream of the "Sacred Text"
    • Does the Writer Exist?
    • Literature as Pleasure, Pleasure as Literature
    • Against Nature


    2. Wonderland
    • Wonderlands
    • Frankenstein's Fallen Angel
    • Jane Eyre: An Introduction
    • Moby Dick: An American Book of Wonders
    • Looking for Thoreau
    • "Soul at the White Heat": The Romance of Emily Dickinson's Poetry
    • Pleasure, Duty, Redemption Then and Now: Susan Warner's Diana
    • Jekyll/Hyde
    • Kafka as Storyteller


    3. In The Ring
    • Mike Tyson
    • Blood, Neon, and Failure in the Desert
    • Tyson/Biggs: Postscript

    4. A Miscellany
    • Annie Johnson: A "Lost" New England Artist
    • "Life, Vigor, Fire": The Watercolors of Winslow Homer
    • George Bellows: The Boxing Paintings
    • The Hemingway Mystique
    • "Food" as Poetry
    • "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" and Smooth Talk: Short Story Into Film
    • "State-of-the-Art Car": The Ferrari Testarossa
    • Budapest Journal: May 1980
    • Visions of Detroit
    • Meeting the Gorbachevs

    Five Prefaces

    Acknowlegements
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    Frankenstein, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Dickinson, boxer, Jack Dempsey, Virginia Woolf, Henry Kissinger, hunger artist, Franz Kafka, Cus D'Amato, Moby Dick, pseudonym, Trevor Berbick, Mike Tyson, Jane Eyre, D. H. Lawrence, Tyrell Biggs, Jim Jacobs, Budapest, Ferrari Testarossa
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    • Publisher: Plume
    • Date: April 28, 1989
    • Book ID: OL:OL7770695M, ISBN13:9780525484943, ISBN10:0525484949

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    2009/07/22Yoshitaka Ito updated Synopsis of You must remember this.
    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.

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    Product Description
    Joyce Carol Oates's epic novel of an American family in the 1950's probes the tender division between the permissible and the forbidden, between ordinary life and the secret places of the heart. Set in an industrial, working-class town in upstate New York, this book chronicles the frustrating marriage of parents Lyle and Hannah; the idealistic political journey of son Warren, and the passionate, obsessive relationship that develops between 15-year-old Enid Maria and her uncle Felix, a professional boxer twice her age. While brilliantly re-creating a decade that worshipped conformity, "You Must Remember This" presents the lives of family members that break every convention in the search for meaning and fulfillment.

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    From the Dust Jacket - from Celestial Timepiece
    From one of the great writers of our time comes this extraordinary novel of an ordinary American family in the 1950s. The Stevicks live in Port Oriskany, and industrial city in upstate New York—father, a romantic, though a dealer in secondhand furniture; mother, a "homemaker," absorbed in her children and the Church; son, back from Korea, with dreams of political activism; oldest daughter, rushing into marriage early and starting a large family; middle daughter, in high school, glamorous, "fast," hoping to become a pop singer; youngest daughter, quiet, watchful, secretive Enid Maria, her daddy's favorite.

    The facade the Stevicks present as a happy family confirms the respectable stereotype of what the decade wanted, or believed it wanted, a typical American family to be. But facades and stereotypes were strategies devised for living in an age notable for both its sunny pieties and nightmare anxieties.

    Almost at once we realize that the Stevicks are less ordinary than they seem: beneath the respectable surface there are furies sleeping, and there are secrets not to be revealed, to be kept even from each other. Running parallel is a visible family life in its daily complications and a violent life of lies, passions, and recriminations going on just out of sight.

    Especially is this true in the passion that develops between Enid Maria Stevick and her father's younger brother, Felix, a former professional boxer who narrowly missed success and is now a man with "interests" in real estate, deals, and gambling. He is the rich, successful, perhaps shady Stevick, a figure of local romance. What begins for Enid Maria and Felix as play of a kind becomes an unappeasable sexual hunger, a near-fatal obsession, lived out in fast cars, seedy motels, and breathless meetings on the dangerous edge of violence and discovery.

    Their incestuous passion is in one sense timeless, transcending the immediacy of their story, but in another sense it belongs to the 1950s—that decade, both sinister and alluring, of backyard bomb shelters, rock 'n' roll, war in Korea, early marriages and fecundity, McCarthy, blacklists, and Eisenhower. Re-creating an age that worshiped conformity, You Must Remember This is an unforgettable examination of lives that violate conformity in seeking fulfillment.

    Even judged by the high standards she has set in her illustrious career, Joyce Carol Oates, in You Must Remember This, has written the novel that is surely her masterpiece. Probing the divisions between the American dream and the American nightmare, between the permissible and the forbidden, she has never been more memorable, more truthful, and, as some will argue, more shocking, for she takes us, with the Stevicks, to the farthest limits of experience.
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    2009/07/22Yoshitaka Ito added a tags to You must remember this.
    aspirin, piano, he'd, Adlai Stevenson, Billy Conn, Felix the Cat, cigarillo, Lyle Stevick, Rocky Marciano, Port Oriskany, Felix Stevick, Shoal Lake, she'd, Arthur Godfrey, Jo-Jo, Joe Louis, Enid's, Jersey Joe Walcott, l'Isle-Verte, Mickey Walker
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    • Publisher: Perennial Library
    • Date: 1988
    • Book ID: OL:OL14417577M, ISBN10:006097169X, ISBN13:9780060971694


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    • Publisher: Franklin Library
    • Date: 1987
    • Book ID: OL:OL2475726M


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    • Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
    • Date: February 25, 1992
    • Book ID: OL:OL7675268M, ISBN13:9780517080191, ISBN10:0517080192


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    • Publisher: Macmillan
    • Date: 1988
    • Book ID: OL:OL17477223M, ISBN13:9780333461822, ISBN10:0333461827


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    • Publisher: Pan
    • Date: 1989
    • Book ID: OL:OL14993616M, ISBN13:9780330302647, ISBN10:0330302647


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    • Publisher: Plume
    • Date: November 1, 1998
    • Book ID: OL:OL7590815M, ISBN10:0452280192, ISBN13:9780452280199

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    2009/07/22Yoshitaka Ito updated Details of Marya : a life.
    Book: Marya : a life
    General Book Type:Fiction
    Language:English
    Original Publish Date:1986
    Copyright Expired:No
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    2009/07/22Yoshitaka Ito updated Synopsis of Raven's wing.
    Raven's wing (1986) by Joyce Carol Oates is a collection of sixteen stories explores the mysteries and varieties of American experience such as Golden Gloves, the story of a would-be champion boxer whose career and marriage fall tragically short of his expectations. The collection contain pieces that focus upon violent and abusive relationships between the sexes.

    It was chosen as New York Times Notable Books of the Year in 1986. Ancient Airs, Voices and The Seasons was prized story of The O'Henry Awards in 1987 and 1985. The title story Raven's Wing and Nairobi was selected as Best American ShortStories in 1985 and 1984 as well.

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    Product Description - by way of Celestial Timepiece
    This new collection of stories from "the unrivaled American master of short fiction" (Greg Johnson, Atlanta Journal & Constitution) is gathered from her work of the past two years. The eighteen stories in Raven's Wing—some of novella length, some short explosive bursts of revelation, all unmistakably Oatesian—maintain the extraordinary standard Joyce Carol Oates has set for herself throughout a quarter of a century.

    She continues here to explore ever more deeply the mysteries and varieties of American experience. Ms. Oates's gift for entering the consciousness of her characters has never been more transcendent. She writes of them with an intensity of feeling and an authenticity of detail that compel a new recognition: their stories, so furiously theirs, blaze up out of their ordinary existence.

    Perhaps the boldest of Oates's sorties into new territory is "Golden Gloves," the story of a would-be champion boxer whose career and marriage alike fall tragically short of expectations. But singling out any one Oates story does an injustice to the others that appear alongside it. Deeper, darker, richer, it is the totality of Raven's Wing that in the end is unforgettable.

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    Contents
    • Raven's Wing
    • The Seasons
    • Nairobi
    • Golden Gloves
    • Harrow Street at Linden
    • Happy
    • Ancient Airs, Voices
    • Double Solitaire
    • Manslaughter
    • Little Wife
    • The Jesuit
    • The Mother
    • Testimony
    • Nuclear Holocaust
    • Surf City
    • Little Blood-Button
    • Baby
    • April
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