Son of the morning [Hardcover]

Joyce Carol Oates (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 370 pages
• Publisher: The Vanguard Press; 1st edition (October 1977)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0814907938
• ISBN-13: 978-0814907931
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.8 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,931,248 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Joyce Carol Oates is the author of more than 70 books, including novels, short story collections, poetry volumes, plays, essays, and criticism, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde. Among her many honors are the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and the National Book Award. Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Intricate Psychological Tales, August 18, 2005

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This review is from: Son of the morning (Hardcover)

Oates' darkest collection and probably her best. These stories range in setting from 1880's Cambridge, Massachusetts, to 1970's California and are concerned with the "night side" of human cogitation. What are we all truthfully deep down inside? DO we know ourselves? Is the side we think we live in day after day, the conscious side, truly our dominant hemisphere? Not one bad story here and several that rank among the best in modern literature. Though not by any means a horror writer, Oates comes within a whisker of that genre a few times in this book.