Journal of Joyce Carol Oates - 1973-1982

Zusatztext "Fascinating." Informationen zum Autor Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys ; Blonde , which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls , which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She 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. Klappentext The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates, edited by Greg Johnson, offers a rare glimpse into the private thoughts of this extraordinary writer, focusing on excerpts written during one of the most productive decades of Oates's long career. Far more than just a daily account of a writer's writing life, these intimate, unrevised pages candidly explore her friendship with other writers, including John Updike, Donald Barthelme, Susan Sontag, Gail Godwin, and Philip Roth. It presents a fascinating portrait of the artist as a young woman, fully engaged with her world and her culture, on her way to becoming one of the most respected, honored, discussed, and controversial figures in American letters. Zusammenfassung The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates , edited by Greg Johnson, offers a rare glimpse into the private thoughts of this extraordinary writer, focusing on excerpts written during one of the most productive decades of Oates's long career. Far more than just a daily account of a writer's writing life, these intimate, unrevised pages candidly explore her friendship with other writers, including John Updike, Donald Barthelme, Susan Sontag, Gail Godwin, and Philip Roth. It presents a fascinating portrait of the artist as a young woman, fully engaged with her world and her culture, on her way to becoming one of the most respected, honored, discussed, and controversial figures in American letters. ...

Product details

• Authors: Joyce C. Oates, Joyce Carol Oates
• Assisted by: Greg Johnson (Editor)
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2008
• EAN: 9780061227998
• ISBN: 978-0-06-122799-8
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 230 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Autobiography: writers, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Literary Figures, LITERARY CRITICISM: American / General, COMPOSITION & WRITING: LITERARY CRITICISM, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form