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Barcode30293101883952
LocationClark County
Call NoF Oate
TitleThe (other) you : stories / Joyce Carol Oates.
AuthorOates, Joyce Carol, 1938- author.
CollectionF
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Clark County30293101883952F Oate2/17/2021 AvailableClark County

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780063035201 (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 0063035200 (hardcover)
Personal Name Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- author.
Uniform Title Short stories. Selections.
Title Statement The (other) you : stories / Joyce Carol Oates.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2021.
Physical Description 288 pages ; 24 cm.
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.
Summary, Etc. 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.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Choice (Psychology) Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Fate and fatalism Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Life change events Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Psychological fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Short stories.

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