Read more
Informationen zum Autor Joyce Carol Oates is a novelist, critic, playwright, poet and author of short stories and one of America’s most respected literary figures. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde . She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University and a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. Klappentext A memoir of childhood and adolescence from award-winning and bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, providing a fascinating insight into the inspiration for many of her novels. Now in paperback. Zusammenfassung A momentous memoir of childhood and adolescence from one of our finest and most beloved writers, as we’ve never seen her before.
Report
'A compelling and at times mysterious testimony to a life of letters like no other I know' Richard Ford
'Every piece merits re-issue ... here and there we glimpse the gothic seam Oates has since mined in her fiction' Suzi Feay, Financial Times
'The spareness of the prose belies a hinterland of suffering . . Steely, lean and bleakly allusive, The Lost Landscape gives an unsettling insight into the ways in which Oates's writing career has emerged' Times Literary Supplement
Praise for Joyce Carol Oates:
'Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going' Gillian Flynn, author of "Gone Girl"
'Oates's prose contains a deep felt rawness which hovers between hope, despair and love' Guardian
'Joyce Carol Oates is an writer who always takes your breath away' Mail on Sunday
'Oates is a writer of extraordinary strengths. Her great subject, naturally, is love' Guardian
'Oates is an inspired writer, and a formidable psychologist. She has a thrilling way of grasping an emotion, wasting no time and launching herself straight at the aching heart of the matter' Independent
