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by Joyce Carol Oates

Acclaimed for her novels and short stories, Oates is also an unparalleled literary critic whose insights and commentary have appeared in such publications as the "The New York Times Book Review." This new collection brings together some of Oates's most brilliant and provocative commentaries.


From the publisher

"A poignant, nostalgic collection of literary criticism by one of America's premier authors."
--Kirkus Reviews

In Rough Country is a sterling collection of essays, reviews, and criticism from Joyce Carol Oates that focuses on a wide array of books and writers--from Poe to Nabokov, from Flannery O'Connor to Phillip Roth. One of our foremost novelists, National Book Award and PEN/Malamud Award winner Oates demonstrates an unparalleled understanding and appreciation of great works of literature with In Rough Country, and offers unique and breathtaking insights into the writer's art.

From the rear cover

In twenty-nine provocative essays, Joyce Carol Oates maps the "rough country" that is both the treacherous geographical and psychological terrain of the writers she so cogently analyzes--Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Philip Roth, E. L. Doctorow, and Margaret Atwood, among others--and the emotional terrain of Oates's own life following the unexpected death of her husband, Raymond Smith, after forty-eight years of marriage.

"As literature is a traditional solace to the bereft, so writing about literature can be a solace, as it was to me when the effort of writing fiction seemed beyond me, as if belonging to another lifetime," Oates writes. "Reading and taking notes, especially late at night when I can't sleep, has been the solace, for me, that saying the Rosary or reading The Book of Common Prayer might be for another." The results of those meditations are the essays of In Rough Country--balanced and illuminating investigations that demonstrate an artist working at the top of her form.

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  • Title In Rough Country: Essays and Reviews
  • Author Joyce Carol Oates
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Edition
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ecco Press, New York
  • Date 2010-06-29
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780061963988 / 0061963984
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.98 x 6.18 x 1.03 in (20.27 x 15.70 x 2.62 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects American essays - 21st century, Criticism - 21st century
  • Dewey Decimal Code 814.54

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Citations

  • Booklist, 07/01/2010, Page 19
  • Kirkus Reviews, 05/01/2010, Page 0
  • New York Times Book Review, 07/18/2010, Page 13
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/26/2010, Page 99
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