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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Oates at her worst. Of the 25 stories, three are acceptable…The charge is often made that Oates writes too quickly and too much; but the same working habits that produced The Goddess also produced her last two big collections, which contain, along with some tripe, some of the best stories in the language. Oates can’t work in any other way.
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 ...
Abby Williams and Libby German were found murdered in 2017 near Monon High Bridge in Delphi, Indiana. After years of uncertainty, local man Richard Allen has been found guilty and sentenced to 130 ...
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
John Oates, one-half of the successful rock duo Daryl Hall & John Oates, has opened up about his partnership with his ex-bandmate amid their ongoing legal debates. Oates and Hall have been in the ...