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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.
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.
With Shuddering Fall is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates first published in 1964 by Vanguard Press.A Fawcett Publications paperback edition was issued in 1973. [1] [2] The first of the many novels by Oates, With Shuddering Fall is set in the fictional Eden County, as are her early short stories.
“In The Assignation, one of Oates’s two collections of ‘miniature narratives,’ such tales as “Blue-Bearded Lover” and “The Others" recall nineteenth-century Gothic literature, while others convey the kind of hothouse psychological intensity, the precarious balance between sanity and madness, traditionally associated with the genre.” [7]
Romano contrasts the work in Night-Side with Oates’s earlier short fiction that deals with human suffering: If there's a difference between the strange mental worlds in this volume and those Miss Oates has taken us to before, it is that the pain pervading the new book is peculiarly lonely and private...In Night-Side' s nearly 400 pages, there ...
Critical reception for Son of the Morning was mixed. [3] [4] Theology Today criticized the narrator's voice as "improbable" and the "obtrusiveness of biblical parallels and symbolic incidents" while also stating that "the theological and psychological probings in the book are too deep and complex, the reporting of visions and sermons too electric and convincing, the implications too perplexing ...
Daryl Hall and John Oates attend the 8th Annual NARAS Heroes Award Gala on December 11, 2003 in New York City. Evan Agostini/Getty Images The circumstances surrounding Daryl Hall’s restraining ...
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]