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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories 9 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
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Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque 24 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...
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Sexy 16 reviews Joyce Carol Oates
HarperTeen, 2005
Sexeptional!
+ Provocative + Ms. Oates Conquers Yet Another Genre
Ideal for anyone who likes sex and bargain prices.
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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 ...
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Blonde: A Novel 174 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
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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
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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
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Will You Always Love Me?: And Other Stories 6 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!
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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, ...
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Sexy 16 reviews Joyce Carol Oates
HarperTeen, 2005
Sexeptional!
+ Provocative + Ms. Oates Conquers Yet Another Genre
Ideal for anyone who likes sex and bargain prices.
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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
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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
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Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque 24 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...
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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, ...
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Will You Always Love Me?: And Other Stories 6 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!
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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 ...
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Blonde: A Novel 174 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
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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories 9 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
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