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The 22 intensely imagined, haunting stories in Oates's (American Appetites ) 19th anthology of reprinted short fiction mine her familiar territory?gothic, supernatural atmospheres, doppelgangers, icily estranged couples locked in mortal psychological combat. Oates's genius is to open with the seemingly mundane, then gradually escalate to a pitch of horrific revelation. Outstanding is "American Abroad," in which an art historian is honored in a foreign city by a host whom terrorists have targeted, while she herself is bizarrely, psychologically targeted by the host's daughter. Some stories successfully cover entire lives: in "The Passion of Rydcie Mather," schoolbus driver Rydcie (for Eurydice, who visited Hades) ragingly defies the God who "forced" her into heroic action to save a drowning girl; her revenge is appropriately apocalyptic. "The Mark of Satan" features an innocently voluptuous door-to-door evangelist and her small daughter preaching like toy dolls to a gritty ex-con who drugs them and plots their rape before accidentally causing his own bloody mutilation. Bodily disintegration is a menace to Oates characters, who variously endure tumors, palsies, strokes, a brain fissure, child abuse. Her baroque imagination, her ability to convey the depths of violence and evil lying just below a thin veneer of civilization, gives her stories a chilling dimension.
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This marvelous collection examines the usually hidden but often destructive underside of relationships. In "The Revenge of the Foot, 1970," a young college student is hopelessly in love with her married professor lover. A lonely middle-aged woman will do anything to gain the love of her stepdaughter in "The Girl Who Was To Die." And "American Abroad" is the poignant tale of a dignified woman art historian on a lecture tour of Europe who is delighted by an enthusiastic young woman's offer to show her Amsterdam's museums, only to be mortified by the extent of her disappointment when the would-be guide doesn't keep the date. These tightly drawn, insightful, and compulsively readable stories by the enormously talented and prolific Oates (Zombie, LJ 8/95) belong in all fiction collections. Highly recommended.?Patricia Ross, Westerville P.L., Ohio
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The 22 intensely imagined, haunting stories in Oates's (American Appetites ) 19th anthology of reprinted short fiction mine her familiar territory?gothic, supernatural atmospheres, doppelgangers, icily estranged couples locked in mortal psychological combat. Oates's genius is to open with the seemingly mundane, then gradually escalate to a pitch of horrific revelation. Outstanding is "American Abroad," in which an art historian is honored in a foreign city by a host whom terrorists have targeted, while she herself is bizarrely, psychologically targeted by the host's daughter. Some stories successfully cover entire lives: in "The Passion of Rydcie Mather," schoolbus driver Rydcie (for Eurydice, who visited Hades) ragingly defies the God who "forced" her into heroic action to save a drowning girl; her revenge is appropriately apocalyptic. "The Mark of Satan" features an innocently voluptuous door-to-door evangelist and her small daughter preaching like toy dolls to a gritty ex-con who drugs them and plots their rape before accidentally causing his own bloody mutilation. Bodily disintegration is a menace to Oates characters, who variously endure tumors, palsies, strokes, a brain fissure, child abuse. Her baroque imagination, her ability to convey the depths of violence and evil lying just below a thin veneer of civilization, gives her stories a chilling dimension.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
This marvelous collection examines the usually hidden but often destructive underside of relationships. In "The Revenge of the Foot, 1970," a young college student is hopelessly in love with her married professor lover. A lonely middle-aged woman will do anything to gain the love of her stepdaughter in "The Girl Who Was To Die." And "American Abroad" is the poignant tale of a dignified woman art historian on a lecture tour of Europe who is delighted by an enthusiastic young woman's offer to show her Amsterdam's museums, only to be mortified by the extent of her disappointment when the would-be guide doesn't keep the date. These tightly drawn, insightful, and compulsively readable stories by the enormously talented and prolific Oates (Zombie, LJ 8/95) belong in all fiction collections. Highly recommended.?Patricia Ross, Westerville P.L., Ohio
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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- "Why is It?" by Diane V. Wells on page 237, and page 238
- Joyce Carol Oates (Twayne's United States Authors Series ; Tusas 321) by Joanne V. Creighton on page 140
- Crossing the Border by J Oates in Front Matter
- Wheel of Love by J Oates in Front Matter
- Last Days: 2 by Joyce Carol Oates in Front Matter
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- The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking , Writing by Michael Meyer on page 182
- The Reading List: Contemporary Fiction: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works of 125 Authors by David Rubel on page 260
- The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction by Ann Charters on page 1088
- The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction, Compact Sixth Edition by Ann Charters on page 618
- Who's Who of Twentieth Century Novelists (Who's Who) by Tim Woods on page 256
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