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High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006
Paperback
FantasyGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $24.00
ISBN13: 9780060501204
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: May 29 2007
Pages: 688
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
This rich volume...succeeds in reminding us how far this indefatigable chronicler of all our lives has traveled, and how important it is that we keep on reading her. -Boston Globe
No other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates. High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 gathers short fiction from the acclaimed author's seminal collections and includes eleven new tales that further demonstrate the breathtaking artistry and striking originality of an incomparable talent who has imbued the American short story with an edgy vitality and raw social surfaces (Chicago Tribune).
As Joyce Carol Oates writes in her Afterword: I think that I can speak for most short story writers in saying that each of our stories exacts from us the same approximate commitment and hope. Prose fiction is, in essence, the realization of an elusive abstract vision in elaborate and painstaking construction, sentence by sentence, word by word. The daunting task for the writer is: what to include? what to exclude? Through our lifetimes a Sargasso Sea of the discarded accumulates, far larger than what is called our body of work, for each story is an opening into the infinite, abruptly terminated and sealed in language.
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