Beautiful Days Stories

Joyce Carol Oates

eBook - 2018

A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize–winning "Undocumented Alien"The diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explore the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves, who assert their independence in acts of bold and often irrevocable defiance. "Fleuve Bleu" exemplifies the rich sensuousness of Oates's prose as lovers married to other persons vow to establish, in their intimacy, a ruthlessly honest, truth-telling authenticity missing elsewhere in their complicated lives, with unexpected results. In "Big Burnt," set on lushly rendered Lake George, in the Adirondac...ks, a cunningly manipulative university professor exploits a too-trusting woman in a way she could never have anticipated. In a more experimental but no less intimate mode, "Les beaux jours" examines the ambiguities of an intensely...

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Published
HarperCollins
Language
English
Main Author
Joyce Carol Oates
Online Access
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Format
Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Kindle Book
ASINB072F14W75
Release Date2/6/2018
OverDrive Read eBook
File Size619 MB
ISBN9780062795809
Release Date2/6/2018