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The Girl with the Blackened Eye: A 15-year-old girl is forcibly abducted and held hostage for several days in the hands of a serial rapist and killer. Part Two Cumberland Breakdown: After a fire kills their father and their mother becomes reclusive, a girl and her brother go and find the house of the family who started the fire.
The reviewer judges the collection “Vintage Oates—always interesting, though not always pleasant.” [5] Publishers Weekly offered a mixed appraisal to the collection, observing that the fiction “offers brilliant bursts of energy that are both dazzling and disappointing for their ephemeral nature” but adding that the stories “reveal a ...
Literary critic Wendy Lesser in The New York Times reports that Oates’s “own enormous body of work” has become a burden that the author carries into her collection Heat and Other Stories, which deal largely with “parent-child struggles.” [5] Lesser offers the story “Shopping” as an example of Oates’s thematic concerns in this volume: the story is not a Gothic horror reminiscent ...
Three Girls drew a strong viewing audience upon its first broadcast, with 8.24 million viewers for episode one, 7.88 million for episode two and 8.19 million for episode three. [3] The series was released on DVD in Region 2 on 8 January 2018. [4] A BBC documentary on the case, The Betrayed Girls, was broadcast on 3 July 2017 as a follow-up to ...
Edited and with an Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates, it was published by Plume in 1996. It featured contributions by Washington Irving , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Edgar Allan Poe , Stephen King , Anne Rice and others, and included over 40 stories.
Last Days: Stories is a collection of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates published by E. P. Dutton in 1984. [1] The stories in this volume were originally published individually in literary journals (See Stories section below) [2]
Three Girls may refer to: De tribus puellis or The Three Girls, an anonymous medieval Latin poem; Three girls movie or three girls in the city movies, a film genre featuring three (sometimes four) girls; Three Girls, a 1935 painting by Amrita Sher-Gil; Three Girls, a 2017 British TV drama series
Romano contrasts the work in Night-Side with Oates’s earlier short fiction that deals with human suffering: If there's a difference between the strange mental worlds in this volume and those Miss Oates has taken us to before, it is that the pain pervading the new book is peculiarly lonely and private...In Night-Side' s nearly 400 pages, there ...