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(Other) You : Stories by Joyce Carol Oates (2021, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100063035200

ISBN-139780063035201

eBay Product ID (ePID)8050032023

Product Key Features

Book Title(Other) You : Stories

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2021

TopicPsychological, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorJoyce Carol Oates

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight14.4 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2022-465408

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"Oates delivers a dark, moody collection permeated by themes of obsession, remorse, and violence. . . . Oates's mastery of the form remains fierce and formidable in this unsettling collection of lamentations and missed opportunities." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Crackling with pent-up emotion and deadly devices, a suite of neatly intertwining stories by a masterful storyteller. . . . Few short story writers do as much in so few words as the economical, enigmatic Oates." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "...A series of well-written stories about the what-if wonders of a life that's been, well, lived...Oates is a master of tension and form, her writing dashing across the page to an often devastating conclusion. Her singular style works well here, fueling the stories even as you oftentimes dread them." -- USA Today "Trenchant and moody." -- New York Times Book Review, Crackling with pent-up emotion and deadly devices, a suite of neatly intertwining stories by a masterful storyteller. . . . Few short story writers do as much in so few words as the economical, enigmatic Oates., "Trenchant and moody." -- New York Times Book Review "...A series of well-written stories about the what-if wonders of a life that's been, well, lived...Oates is a master of tension and form, her writing dashing across the page to an often devastating conclusion. Her singular style works well here, fueling the stories even as you oftentimes dread them." -- USA Today "Oates delivers a dark, moody collection permeated by themes of obsession, remorse, and violence. . . . Oates's mastery of the form remains fierce and formidable in this unsettling collection of lamentations and missed opportunities." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Crackling with pent-up emotion and deadly devices, a suite of neatly intertwining stories by a masterful storyteller. . . . Few short story writers do as much in so few words as the economical, enigmatic Oates." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review), Oates delivers a dark, moody collection permeated by themes of obsession, remorse, and violence. . . . Oates's mastery of the form remains fierce and formidable in this unsettling collection of lamentations and missed opportunities.

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisA 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3565.A8