Marriages and Infidelities
by Joyce Carol Oates
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Twenty four short stories all on the themes of marriage and infidelity.Tags
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Tenants Harbor - 2022 #4 - A somewhat dark and haunting collection of short stories....seemingly devoted to the down-side of relationships....and the perils therein created. Not for the faint of heart....& certainly not for someone in anyway insecure in a relationship. Some i liked a lot, some were just ok, and several were impossible for me to follow. Could be the book....could be me. So, i really enjoyed "The Sacred Marriage"; "Happy Onion"; "Stray Children"; & "The Lady With the Pet Dog" (depressing as they all were). "The Turn of the Screw" was also enjoyable and rather clever, once i figured out how to read it. "Where I Lived and What I Lived For"; "The Dead"; & "Nightmusic" were incomprehensible to me.....others were so-so. That's show more pretty much all I got....... show less
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Joyce Carol Oates was born on June 16, 1938 in Lockport, New York. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Syracuse University and a master's degree in English from the University of Wisconsin. She is the author of numerous novels and collections of short stories. Her works include We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, Bellefleur, You Must show more Remember This, Because It Is Bitter, Because It Is My Heart, Solstice, Marya : A Life, and Give Me Your Heart. She has received numerous awards including the National Book Award for Them, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Literature. She was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with her title Lovely, Dark, Deep. She also wrote a series of suspense novels under the pseudonym Rosamond Smith. In 2015, her novel The Accursed became listed as a bestseller on the iBooks chart. She worked as a professor of English at the University of Windsor, before becoming the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. She and her late husband Raymond J. Smith operated a small press and published a literary magazine, The Ontario Review. (Bowker Author Biography) Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most eminent and prolific literary figures and social critics of our times. She has won the National Book Award and several O. Henry and Pushcart prizes. Among her other awards are an NEA grant, a Guggenheim fellowship, the PEN/Malamud Lifetime Achievement Award, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Literature. (Publisher Provided) show less
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dtv (11501)
Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1972
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
- DDC/MDS
- 813.5 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999
- LCC
- PZ4 .O122 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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- 123
- Popularity
- 264,204
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.64)
- Languages
- 5 — Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 9
- ASINs
- 5
