All right, Ugly Girl made a mistake. I'd told my mom what I'd heard in the cafeteria, and she'd told Dad. Evidently. I'd thought for sure they would want me to speak up for the truth.
In this collection of twenty-one unforgettable stories, Joyce Carol Oates explores the mysterious private lives of men and women with vivid, unsparing precision and sympathy. By turns interlocutor and interpreter, magician and realist, she dissects the...
The Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet. But something happens on Valentineâs Day, 1976âan incident that is hushed up in the town and never spoken of in the Mulvaney homeâthat rends the...
The Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet. But something happens on Valentineâs Day, 1976âan incident that is hushed up in the town and never spoken of in the Mulvaney homeâthat rends the...
Joyce Carol Oates's prize-winning story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" takes up troubling subjects that continue to occupy her in her fiction: the romantic longings and limited options of adolescent women; the tensions between...
New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oatesâs strongest and most unsparing novel yetâan always engrossing, often shocking evocation of female rage, gallantry, and grit.Â
These twenty-five interviews with Joyce Carol Oates from early in her career to the present are the first such collection to be published. In these conversations from sources as diverse as major news magazines and small scholarly journals, Oates candidly...
This collection of fifty-two poems from the author of Angel Fire and Anonymous Sins explores the annihilation of the time-bound ego, a liberating, sometimes terrifying experience for all who live within the "fabulous beast" of history and nature....