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The Girl with the Blackened Eye: A 15-year-old girl is forcibly abducted and held hostage for several days in the hands of a serial rapist and killer. Part Two. Cumberland Breakdown: After a fire kills their father and their mother becomes reclusive, a girl and her brother go and find the house of the family who started the fire.
The stories are unified by interrelated themes which she names in the collection's epigraph, Walt Whitman's poem "A Clear Midnight:" This is thy hour O soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done. Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best:
Oates at her worst. Of the 25 stories, three are acceptable…The charge is often made that Oates writes too quickly and too much; but the same working habits that produced The Goddess also produced her last two big collections, which contain, along with some tripe, some of the best stories in the language. Oates can’t work in any other way.
Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction.
Barbara suffers, knowing that a nonentity like Dorie has captivated her husband. Dorie's effort to clean up after the slovenly Arber family humiliates Barbara. She compensates by overeating. Three months have passed. Mark makes an unexpected visit to Barbara's writing loft. He informs her that Dorrie is pregnant, a situation he blames on the girl.
Last Days: Stories is a collection of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates published by E. P. Dutton in 1984. [1] The stories in this volume were originally published individually in literary journals (See Stories section below) [2]
Three Girls may refer to: De tribus puellis or The Three Girls, an anonymous medieval Latin poem; Three girls movie or three girls in the city movies, a film genre featuring three (sometimes four) girls; Three Girls, a 1935 painting by Amrita Sher-Gil; Three Girls, a 2017 British TV drama series
The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies is a collection of short stories written by Joyce Carol Oates.It was published in 1974 by Black Sparrow Press.. Just like her collections Marriages and Infidelities (1972) and The Goddess and Other Women (1974), this one is also thematically unified as it focuses on characters from the academic and literary world.