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2) Solstice
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
The story of two women, Monica Jensen and Sheila Trask, who become friends and then move toward love and "beyond it, arriving at last at a near-fatal obsession with each other."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Presents nine tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life--from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s magazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's ideals of beauty and womanhood.
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In Expensive People, Oates takes a provocative and suspenseful look at the roiling secrets of America's affluent suburbs. Set in the late 1960s, this first-person confession is narrated by Richard Everett, a precocious and obese boy who sees himself as a minor character in the alarming drama unfolding...
5) Wonderland
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. Spanning from the Great Depression to the turbulent Vietnam War era, Wonderland is the epic account of Jesse Vogel, a boy who emerged from a family tragedy with his life spared but his world torn apart. Orphaned after watching his father murder his entire family, Jesse embarks on a personal odyssey that...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"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."--Publisher description.
8) Mudwoman
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
A riveting novel that explores the high price of success in the life of one womanthe first female president of a lauded ivy league institutionand her hold upon her self-identity in the face of personal and professional demons, from Joyce Carol Oates. Mudgirl is a child abandoned by her mother in the silty flats of the Black Snake River. Cast aside, Mudgirl survives by an accident of fateor destiny. After her rescue, the well-meaning...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their community; a man returns from the dead to haunt his grieving wife; a young mother finds herself captivated by her own motherhood. In the collection's longest story, a much-praised writer cruelly experiments with "drafts" of his...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A haunting story of the powerful spell Niagara Falls casts upon two generations of a family, leading to tragedy, love, loss, and, ultimately, redemption. A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls. A newlywed, he has left behind his wife, Ariah Erskine, in the honeymoon suite the morning after their wedding. "The Widow Bride of The Falls," as Ariah comes to be known, begins a relentless, seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting for...
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