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A new collection of eleven mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien"
In the diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explores the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves, who assert their independence in acts of bold and often irrevocable defiance.
"Fleuve Bleu" exemplifies the rich sensuousness of Oates's prose as lovers married to other persons vow to establish, in their intimacy, a ruthlessly honest, truth-telling authenticity missing elsewhere in their complicated lives, with unexpected results. In "Big Burnt," set on lushly rendered Lake George in the Adirondacks, a cunningly manipulative university professor exploits a too-trusting woman in a way she could never have anticipated. In a more experimental but no less intimate mode, "Les beaux jours" examines the ambiguities of an intensely erotic, exploitative relationship between a "master" artist and his adoring young female model. And the tragic "Undocumented Alien" depicts a young African student enrolled in an American university who is suddenly stripped of his student visa and forced to undergo a terrifying test of courage.
In these stories, as elsewhere in her fiction, Joyce Carol Oates exhibits her fascination with the social, psychological, and moral boundaries that govern our behavior--until the hour when they do not.
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- Title Beautiful Days: Stories
- Author Joyce Carol Oates
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco Press
- Date 2018-02
- ISBN 9780062795786 / 0062795783
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 1.4 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 3.56 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Friendship
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Short stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017038048
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.54
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Citations
- Booklist, 02/01/2018, Page 24
- Kirkus Reviews, 11/15/2017, Page 0
- Library Journal, 03/01/2018, Page 78
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 09/15/2017, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 12/04/2017, Page 0
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