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Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde (a finalist for the National Book Award), and the New York Times bestsellers The Falls (winner of the 2005 Prix Femina) and The Gravedigger's Daughter.
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Selected Stories from the O. Henry Prize Stories 2002
Read by Various, Selected by Dave Eggers, Joyce Carol Oates and Colson Whitehead, Edited by Larry Dark
Random House Audio | Abridged Audiobook Download |
$14.96/21.00(Canada) | 978-0-7393-0075-6 (0-7393-0075-X)
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The Damnation of Theron Ware or Illumination
Written by Harold Frederic, Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates
Modern Library | Trade Paperback | May 2002
$19.00/25.00(Canada) | 978-0-375-76035-8 (0-375-76035-0)
Published in 1896, The Damnation of Theron Ware or Illumination is a profound psychological portrait of the spiritual undoing of a guileless Methodist minister who is taken in by a rural townspeople’s various progressive ideas, from liberalism to bohemianism, only to be spurned by them for being too conventional. Described by... Read more
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Women in Love
Written by D.H. Lawrence, Foreword by D.H. Lawrence, Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates
Modern Library | Trade Paperback | January 2000
$10.95/15.95(Canada) | 978-0-375-75488-3 (0-375-75488-1)
With an Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates
foreword by the author
Commentary by Carl van Doren, Rebecca West,
Aldous Huxley, and Henry Miller
It is . . . the world of the poets and the preponderance of the poet in [Lawrence] that is the key to his work. He magnified and deepened experience in the... Read more
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Expensive People
Written by Joyce Carol Oates, Introduction by Elaine Showalter
Modern Library | Trade Paperback | September 2006
$13.95/18.95(Canada) | 978-0-8129-7654-0 (0-8129-7654-1)
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In Expensive People, Oates takes a provocative and suspenseful look at the roiling secrets of America’s affluent suburbs. Set in the late 1960s, this first-person confession is narrated by... Read more
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Expensive People
Written by Joyce Carol Oates, Introduction by Elaine Showalter
Modern Library | eBook |
$13.95/18.95(Canada) | 978-0-307-49536-5 (0-307-49536-1)
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In Expensive People, Oates takes a provocative and suspenseful look at the roiling secrets of America’s affluent suburbs. Set in the late 1960s, this first-person confession is narrated by... Read more
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A Garden of Earthly Delights
Written by Joyce Carol Oates, Introduction by Elaine Showalter
Modern Library | eBook |
$14.00/17.99(Canada) | 978-0-307-52575-8 (0-307-52575-9)
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard... Read more
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A Garden of Earthly Delights
Written by Joyce Carol Oates, Introduction by Elaine Showalter
Modern Library | Trade Paperback | April 2003
$14.00/17.99(Canada) | 978-0-8129-6834-7 (0-8129-6834-4)
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard... Read more
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them
Written by Joyce Carol Oates, Introduction by Elaine Showalter
Modern Library | Trade Paperback | September 2006
$15.00/18.95(Canada) | 978-0-345-48440-6 (0-345-48440-1)
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. As powerful and relevant today as it on its initial publication, them chronicles the tumultuous lives of a family living on the edge of ruin in the Detroit slums... Read more
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them
Written by Joyce Carol Oates, Afterword by Joyce Carol Oates, Introduction by Greg Johnson
Modern Library | Hardcover | May 2000
$21.95/29.95(Canada) | 978-0-679-64025-7 (0-679-64025-8)
Winner of the National Book Award and in print for more than thirty years, them ranks as one of the most masterly portraits of postwar America ever written by a novelist. Including several new pages and text substantially revised and updated by the author, this Modern Library edition is the most... Read more
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Wonderland
Written by Joyce Carol Oates, Introduction by Elaine Showalter
Modern Library | Trade Paperback | September 2006
$14.95/21.00(Canada) | 978-0-8129-7655-7 (0-8129-7655-X)
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. Spanning from the Great Depression to the turbulent Vietnam War era, Wonderland is the epic account of Jesse Vogel, a boy who emerged from a family tragedy with his... Read more
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