FICTION
Released: March 31, 2009
"One of this indefatigable author's best books in some time."
The latest of Oates' numerous collections offers 14 tales variously concerned with family relationships and crises.
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FICTION
Released: June 24, 2008
"A bad idea, poorly executed. Where will Oates take us next? One wonders, and fears."
Oates's 35th novel, which follows last year's flawed but interesting
The Gravedigger's Daughter, is another bloated roman a cléf.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2007
""Love. Friendship. Art. Work. These are my values," Oates says. Watching her juggle them in these replete pages is a stimulating experience."
Tensions between public image and private self are engagingly acknowledged and analyzed in illuminating excerpts from journals begun during the second decade of this prolific author's remarkable career.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 1, 2007
"Surreal interior landscapes, shamelessly incantatory prose and an enduring ambivalence toward the neo-gothic conventions from which Oates (The Gravedigger's Daughter, 2007, etc.) draws her power to shock and dismay."
FICTION
Released: June 1, 2007
"A truly representative sampling of this unpredictable author's grind-it-out strengths and mind-boggling weaknesses."
The lingering residue of survivor's guilt and trauma shape a battered woman's life on the run in Oates's latest novel (
Black Girl/White Girl, 2006, etc.), which is stuffed with echoes of her earlier fiction.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2006
"Characteristically strident and forced--and it's a real shame. This could have been one of Oates's better books."
Oates's billionth is a brooding analysis of racial relations and white liberal guilt, which partially echoes her eerie novella
Beasts (2001) and earlier major novel
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart.
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