Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories9 reviews
Joyce Carol Oates

Ontario Review Press, 1994

award-winning author for a REASON!

+ You'll be charmed by Oates' world
+ Somewhat unsettling but very well-written
+ A perfect introduction to the works of Joyce Carol Oates
  
  











  



  
Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque24 reviews
Joyce Carol Oates

Plume, 1995

Up and Down Your Spine I Shall Pace and Stomp Hyenas

+ No one does it like Joyce Carol Oates
+ Dark and Depressing
+ Solid but inconsistent collection of JCO's dark side...
  
  











  



  
Sexy16 reviews
Joyce Carol Oates

HarperTeen, 2005

Sexeptional!

+ Provocative
+ Ms. Oates Conquers Yet Another Genre

Ideal for anyone who likes sex and bargain prices.
  
  











  



  
Black Water (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)59 reviews
Joyce Carol Oates

Plume, 1993

Suffocation by Manipulated Narrative Structure

+ "You love the life you've lived, there is no other."
+ Joyce Carol Oates is at it again

"Black Water" is one of Joyce Carol Oates' masterpieces. Being predisposed to lean toward her short fiction, I was surprised to find myself so in love with this book. To answer a few questions, yes it does bring to mind a certain senator who is a member of "America's Royal Family." And yes, it ...
  
  











  



  
Blonde: A Novel174 reviews
Joyce Carol Oates

Harper Perennial, 2001

Ambivalent

+ Getting used to author's writing style
+ Potentially Oates's Best, But Too Tawdry, and Too Graphic
+ Tour de force
  
  











  



  
Heat and Other Stories (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)4 reviews
Joyce Carol Oates

Plume, 1992

Oates is a master of the short story!

+ Heat Is An Apt Title
+ Oates's best collection yet!
+ A well builder book
  
  











  



  
Them (Wonderland Quartet)23 reviews
Joyce Carol Oates

Fawcett, 1984

The only kind of fiction that is real

+ Acute exposure of fragility beneath hard, shielding façades
+ Realism stretched like putty
+ Possibly The Novel Upon Which Oates Built Her Reputation
+ Great Writing, so-so story
  
  











  



  
Will You Always Love Me?: And Other Stories6 reviews
Joyce Carol Oates

Plume, 1997

Master Stories from a Master Storyteller

+ Tales Of Revenge, Madness, Humiliation, Coming To Consiousness, Pain!
+ Joyce Carol Oates does it again!
+ Unexpected truths (Review contains a spoiler)
+ Excellent!
  
  











  



  
We Were the Mulvaneys (Oprah's Book Club)475 reviews
Joyce Carol Oates

Plume, 1996

Not to be missed - a quintessentially American story

+ Elegant & Heartbreaking Prose

We Were the Mulvaneys tells the story of the Mulvaney family: handsome, successful patriarch Michael Mulvaney Sr., who owns a thriving roofing business and enjoys the friendship and contacts of many of the movers and shakers in small Mt. Ephraim, New York; blue-eyed, lithe, religious Corinne, ...
  
  











  



  
Sexy16 reviews
Joyce Carol Oates

HarperTeen, 2005

Sexeptional!

+ Provocative
+ Ms. Oates Conquers Yet Another Genre

Ideal for anyone who likes sex and bargain prices.
  
  











  



  
Heat and Other Stories (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)4 reviews
Joyce Carol Oates

Plume, 1992

Oates is a master of the short story!

+ Heat Is An Apt Title
+ Oates's best collection yet!
+ A well builder book
  
  











  



  
Them (Wonderland Quartet)23 reviews
Joyce Carol Oates

Fawcett, 1984

The only kind of fiction that is real

+ Acute exposure of fragility beneath hard, shielding façades
+ Realism stretched like putty
+ Possibly The Novel Upon Which Oates Built Her Reputation
+ Great Writing, so-so story
  
  











  



  
Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque24 reviews
Joyce Carol Oates

Plume, 1995

Up and Down Your Spine I Shall Pace and Stomp Hyenas

+ No one does it like Joyce Carol Oates
+ Dark and Depressing
+ Solid but inconsistent collection of JCO's dark side...
  
  











  



  
We Were the Mulvaneys (Oprah's Book Club)475 reviews
Joyce Carol Oates

Plume, 1996

Not to be missed - a quintessentially American story

+ Elegant & Heartbreaking Prose

We Were the Mulvaneys tells the story of the Mulvaney family: handsome, successful patriarch Michael Mulvaney Sr., who owns a thriving roofing business and enjoys the friendship and contacts of many of the movers and shakers in small Mt. Ephraim, New York; blue-eyed, lithe, religious Corinne, ...
  
  











  



  
Will You Always Love Me?: And Other Stories6 reviews
Joyce Carol Oates

Plume, 1997

Master Stories from a Master Storyteller

+ Tales Of Revenge, Madness, Humiliation, Coming To Consiousness, Pain!
+ Joyce Carol Oates does it again!
+ Unexpected truths (Review contains a spoiler)
+ Excellent!
  
  











  



  
Black Water (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)59 reviews
Joyce Carol Oates

Plume, 1993

Suffocation by Manipulated Narrative Structure

+ "You love the life you've lived, there is no other."
+ Joyce Carol Oates is at it again

"Black Water" is one of Joyce Carol Oates' masterpieces. Being predisposed to lean toward her short fiction, I was surprised to find myself so in love with this book. To answer a few questions, yes it does bring to mind a certain senator who is a member of "America's Royal Family." And yes, it ...
  
  











  



  
Blonde: A Novel174 reviews
Joyce Carol Oates

Harper Perennial, 2001

Ambivalent

+ Getting used to author's writing style
+ Potentially Oates's Best, But Too Tawdry, and Too Graphic
+ Tour de force
  
  











  



  
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories9 reviews
Joyce Carol Oates

Ontario Review Press, 1994

award-winning author for a REASON!

+ You'll be charmed by Oates' world
+ Somewhat unsettling but very well-written
+ A perfect introduction to the works of Joyce Carol Oates