Description
Replete with the emotional intensity and pathos for which Joyce Carol Oates is lauded, these fourteen stories explore the intimate lives of contemporary American families: the tangled relationship between generations, the desperation of loving more than one is loved in return. In "Cutty Sark" and "Landfill," the bond between adolescent son and mother reverberates with the force of an unspoken passion. The gripping title story finds Oates boldly reimagining the true-crime story of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother who drowned her children in 2001. Several stories offer a more lighthearted reprieve, examining with dark humor the shadowy intersection between self-awareness and delusion.
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 04/06/2010
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.50w x 0.81d
ISBN13: 9780061704321
ISBN10: 0061704326
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Epistolary
- Fiction | Family Life | General