Three Plays: Ontological Proof of My Existence, Miracle Play, The Triumph of the Spider Monkey [Hardcover]

Joyce Carol Oates (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 17, 1980

Alfred Kazin has spoken of Joyce Carol Oates' "sweetly brutal sense of what American experience I like," and each of these original and disturbing plays explores a facet of that experience.

When Ontological Proof of My Existence was presented in New York City, Newsweek critic Jack Kroll spoke of its "flaring life" and its power in reminding us that we are all characters in the melodrama of contemporary crisis.

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About the Author

Joyce Carol Oates is one of our most important and well known writers—and one of America’s foremost writers of the short story form. She is also a regular contributor of reviews and criticism for the New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. She also reads and lectures widely throughout the US, at universities and bookstores.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Ontario Review Books (December 17, 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0865380015
• ISBN-13: 978-0865380011
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #813,315 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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.