Beautiful Days: Stories
by Oates, Joyce Carol
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine Condition/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0062795783
- ISBN 13
- 9780062795786
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About This Item
Ecco Books, New York, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Near Fine. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 334 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. A fine unread copy.. The book is available and ready to ship. A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien"The diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explore 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. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Short Stories; United States; Modern; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9780062795786. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9807. . 9780062795786
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9807
- Title
- Beautiful Days: Stories
- Author
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0062795783
- ISBN 13
- 9780062795786
- Publisher
- Ecco Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2018
- Keywords
- BZDB137 Contemporary Fiction, Short Story Books Fiction; Short Stories; United States; Modern; Unbranded EAN: 9780062795786 Oates, Joyce Carol Beautiful Days: Stories
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