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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 Greg Johnson registers a sharp rebuke to fellow critic Mary Kathryn Grant’s assessment that “what is finally disconcerting about Oates’s women is that they are weak, spiritually impoverished, devoid of beauty, morally bankrupt - in a word, unfeminine.” [9] Johnson declares that Oates’s characterizations of women in ...
In the book's foreword, Oates writes that them is based for the most part upon the life of a real family. The main character, "Maureen Wendall," contacted Oates by mail after she had failed a college course taught by the author, and these letters are included (presumably verbatim) in the novel, about two-thirds of the way through the text.
Oates was born in Lockport, New York, the eldest of three children of Carolina (née Bush), a homemaker of Hungarian descent, [6] [7] and Frederic James Oates, a tool and die designer. [6] She grew up on her parents' farm outside the town. Her brother, Fred Jr., and sister, Lynn Ann, were born in 1943 and 1956, respectively.
The novel also covers a period of about three and a half years, while the film's action takes place during the course of a few weeks. Another adaption of the novel, Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang , stars Raven Adamson as Legs, and directed by French director Laurent Cantet , was released in Europe in December 2012 and has been cited as ...
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 ...
We Were the Mulvaneys is a novel written by Joyce Carol Oates, and was published in 1996. We Were the Mulvaneys was featured in Oprah's Book Club in January 2001.. The novel chronicles the Mulvaneys, a seemingly perfect family living in the small, rural town of Mt. Ephraim, New York, during the latter part of the 20th century.
My Life as a Rat is a novel by American writer Joyce Carol Oates, published by Ecco Press, an imprint of HarperCollins, on June 4, 2019.It follows the life of Violet Rue Kerrigan, who is disowned from her family at the age of 12 after she reveals that her brothers were responsible for the murder of an African American teenager.