High Lonesome

Zusatztext "Illustrious author Joyce Carol Oates is back with a seminal collection spanning five decades...This anthology is a must-read." 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 No other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates. High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 gathers short fiction from the acclaimed author's seminal collections and includes eleven new tales that further demonstrate the breathtaking artistry and striking originality of an incomparable talent who "has imbued the American short story with an edgy vitality and raw social surfaces" (Chicago Tribune). Zusammenfassung No other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates. High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 gathers short fiction from the acclaimed author's seminal collections and includes eleven new tales that further demonstrate the breathtaking artistry and striking originality of an incomparable talent who "has imbued the American short story with an edgy vitality and raw social surfaces" ( Chicago Tribune ).

Product details

• Authors: Joyce Carol Oates
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.05.2007
• EAN: 9780060501204
• ISBN: 978-0-06-050120-4
• No. of pages: 688
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 203 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Anthologies: general, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Fantasy / Epic, FICTION: Fantasy / Contemporary, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FICTION: Classics, FICTION: Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies, POETRY: Epic, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary