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The (other) you : stories / Joyce Carol Oates.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780063035201 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0063035200 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 288 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | The (other) you -- The women friends -- The bloody head -- Where are you? -- The crack -- Waiting for Kizer -- Blue guide -- Assassin -- Sinners in the hands of an angry God -- Hospice/honeymoon -- Subaqueous -- The happy place -- Nightgrief -- Final interview -- The unexpected. |
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| Subject: | Choice (Psychology) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. Short stories. |
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- 0 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.
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Other Formats and Editions
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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- Baker & Taylor
The National Book Award-winning author of We Were the Mulvaneys presents a latest collection of stories that explores the musings of a writer, a prisoner and a student who consider how their lives might have unfolded differently. 50,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
Presents a collection of stories that explores the musings of a writer, a prisoner, a student, and others who consider how their lives might have unfolded differently had they made different choices. - Blackwell Publishing
JOYCE CAROL OATES "Oates is just a fearless writer with her brave heart and her impossibly lush and dead-on imaginative powers."---Los Angeles Times
"What keeps us reading is the admiration for a writer who can so consistently make something colorful and inventive happen on the page."---New York Re-view of Books
"Oates is a giant among us thoroughly wonderful and important."---NPR Books
"What keeps us coming back to Oates Country is her uncanny gift of making the page a window, with something happening on the other side that wed swear was like life itself."---New York Times Book Review
"That rarity in American fiction, a writer who seems to grow with each new book."---Time - HARPERCOLL
A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we’d chosen a different path, from a master of the short story
In this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives we might have led if we’d made different choices. An accomplished writer returns to her childhood home of Yewville, but the homecoming stirs troubled thoughts about the person she might have been if she’d never left. A man in prison contemplates the gravity of his irreversible act. A student’s affair with a professor results in a pregnancy that alters the course of her life forever. Even the experience of reading is investigated as one that can create a profound transformation: “You could enter another time, the time of the book.”
The (Other) You is an arresting and incisive vision into these alternative realities, a collection that ponders the constraints we all face given the circumstances of our birth and our temperaments, and that examines the competing pressures and expectations on women in particular. Finely attuned to the nuances of our social and psychic selves, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates here why she remains one of our most celebrated and relevant literary figures.
- HARPERCOLL
A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we'd chosen a different path, from a master of the short story
In this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives we might have led if we'd made different choices. An accomplished writer returns to her childhood home of Yewville, but the homecoming stirs troubled thoughts about the person she might have been if she'd never left. A man in prison contemplates the gravity of his irreversible act. A student's affair with a professor results in a pregnancy that alters the course of her life forever. Even the experience of reading is investigated as one that can create a profound transformation: 'You could enter another time, the time of the book."The (Other) You is an arresting and incisive vision into these alternative realities, a collection that ponders the constraints we all face given the circumstances of our birth and our temperaments, and that examines the competing pressures and expectations on women in particular. Finely attuned to the nuances of our social and psychic selves, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates here why she remains one of our most celebrated and relevant literary figures.