Wil Nights!

New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates'' imaginative look at the last days of five giants of American literature, now available in a deluxe paperback edition in Ecco''s The Art of the Story Series. Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Samuel Clemens ("Mark Twain"), Henry James, Ernest Hemingway--Joyce Carol Oates evokes each of these American literary icons in this work of prose fiction, poignantly and audaciously reinventing the climactic events of their lives. In subtly nuanced language suggestive of each of these writers, Oates explores the mysterious regions of the unknowable self that is "genius." Darkly hilarious, brilliant, and brazen, Wild Nights! is an original and haunting work of the imagination.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Joyce Carol Oates
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.10.2015
• EAN: 9780061434822
• ISBN: 978-0-06-143482-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 204 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Art of the Story; Art of the Story
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: General, FICTION: Romance / Contemporary, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), FICTION: Sagas, FICTION: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION: Sea Stories, FICTION: Psychological, FICTION: Friendship, FICTION: Hispanic & Latino / General