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The Assignation Paperback - 1996
by Joyce Carol Oates
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In this sexy, racy collection of short prose takes by a master of the form, Joyce Carol Oates makes her own appointment with character and event--a sort of extended sequential reverie that surprises and sometimes shocks, but always satisfies.
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- Title The Assignation
- Author Joyce Carol Oates
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Ecco Pbk. Ed
- Condition New
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, NEW YORK
- Publication date 1996-08-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # BW-9780880014403
- ISBN 9780880014403 / 0880014407
- Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.54 x 0.52 in (21.59 x 14.07 x 1.32 cm)
- Category Fiction - General
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00000000
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
- Quantity available 500
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First line
They are sitting at opposite ends of the old horsehair sofa waiting for something to happen.
From the rear cover
A woman's lover seems not to recognize her on the street. A teenage girl accepts a ride from a stranger in a rust-speckled Cadillac. An old man is obsessed by the memory of his innocent childhood intrusion on a half-dressed aunt.
In forty-four very short, very powerful stories, Joyce Carol Oates fashions brief, intensely compact dramas out of the unwieldy material of human experience. The stories in The Assignation are infused with a "radiant intensity," wrote James Atlas in the New York Times Book Review, and they convey the depth and scope of a novel in a few charged pages. The Assignation is an electric display of the talents that make Joyce Carol Oates one of our finest short story writers.
