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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.
“Unmailed, Unwritten Letters” is a work of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates originally published in The Hudson Review (Spring 1969), and first collected in The Wheel of Love (1970) by Vanguard Press. [1] The story was reprinted in Prize Stories 1970: The O. Henry Awards; Oates was awarded their Special Award for Continuing Excellence. [2] [3]
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 Dead” is told from a third-person point-of-view, with Ilena, 29-years-old when the story opens, as the focal character.. Ilena is a recent divorcee living in Buffalo, New York and teaching literature courses part-time at a Catholic university when the story opens.
The author of more than 50 novels, including “Blonde, ” a fictional account of the life of Marilyn Monroe, Oates has often drawn from historical people and events. In “Butcher,” she pulls ...
“In the Region of Ice” is a work of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates originally published in The Atlantic, August 1966, and first collected in The Wheel of Love (1970), by Vanguard Press. [1] Frequently anthologized, “In the Region of Ice” is ranked among Oates's finest works of fiction.
Joanne V. Creighton points out both the differences and the similarities between the two volumes: . Less often set in Eden County than the stories in By the North Gate, those in Upon the Sweeping Flood embody some of the same themes: the groping of inarticulate people for order and meaning and the discovery of hidden, unlovely depth of passion or of emptiness within one's self.