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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.
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]
The first section opens: “This girl (myself) is walking through Branden’s, that excellent store.” [3] The year is 1968. The sixteen-year-old girl (unnamed) lives with her parents in an exclusive housing division outside of Detroit. She attends a private high school.
The Dead (Oates short story) The Fine White Mist of Winter; The Girl (short story) The Goddess (short story) The Lady With the Pet Dog; The Metamorphosis (1971 story) The Seduction and Other Stories; The Voyage to Rosewood
“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]
The novel also covers a period of about three and a half years, while the film's action takes place during the course of a few weeks. Another adaption of the novel, Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang , stars Raven Adamson as Legs, and directed by French director Laurent Cantet , was released in Europe in December 2012 and has been cited as ...
Literary critic Wendy Lesser in The New York Times reports that Oates’s “own enormous body of work” has become a burden that the author carries into her collection Heat and Other Stories, which deal largely with “parent-child struggles.” [5] Lesser offers the story “Shopping” as an example of Oates’s thematic concerns in this volume: the story is not a Gothic horror reminiscent ...