Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Wheel of Love contains 20 works of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates published by Vanguard Press in 1970. [1] The volume brought Oates "abundant national acclaim", [2] including this assessment from librarian and critic John Alfred Avant: "Quite simply, one of the finest collections of short stories ever written by an American."
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.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate
Johnson, Greg. 1994. Joyce Carol Oates: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne’s studies in short fiction; no. 57. Twayne Publishers, New York. ISBN 0-8057-0857-X; Oates, Joyce Carol. 1970. The Wheel of Love. Vanguard Press, New York. ISBN 978-0814906767; Fishel, Elizabeth R.. 1970. Books: The Wheel of Love and Other Stories. The Crimson ...
The volume “contains some of her best revelations of complexity in lives ordinarily thought to be without depth or value.” The subjects that concern Oates are those members of the American working-class—“hairdressers, assembly‐line workers, gum‐ cracking teen‐agers”—encountered in “shopping malls, tract housing, drive‐ins ...
“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 Dark Lady of Letters invited Esquire to her New Jersey home, where she sounded off on feminism, artificial intelligence, Twitter, the future of reading, the 'Succession' finale, her writing ...
Crossing the Border: Fifteen Tales is a collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates written while the author was residing in Canada (1968 – 1978). Published simultaneously by Vanguard Press in the United States and by Cage Publishing Company, Agincourt, Canada in 1976.