books by Joyce Carol Oates     books:     Joyce Carol Oates      We Were the Mulvaneys (Oprah's Book Club) Joyce Carol Oates Plume, 1996 Not to be missed - a quintessentially American story We Were the Mulvaneys tells the story of the Mulvaney family: handsome, successful patriarch Michael Mulvaney Sr., who owns a thriving roofing business and enjoys the friendship and contacts of many of the movers and shakers in small Mt. Ephraim, New York; blue-eyed, ...             Big Mouth & Ugly Girl Joyce Carol Oates HarperTeen, 2003 Pleasantly surprised This was my first Oates book so I had no idea what to expect. What I got was a book with very well written characters and a good premise. Both main characters are completely believable and their friendship is described i a very good way. The parts focusing on "Ugly ...             My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike Joyce Carol Oates Ecco, 2008 Disjointed narrative worth working through Skyler Rampike, surviving child of the tabloid disaster that is his family, narrates this story. His 6-year-old sister, a prodigy figure skater under the pushy care of their stage mother, is murdered and found in the family's furnace room, with a scribbled and barely ...             The Gravedigger's Daughter: A Novel (P.S.) Joyce Carol Oates Harper Perennial, 2008 Oates explores impact of childhood abuse on development of woman's identity In "The Gravedigger's Daughter," Joyce Carol Oates explores the impact of childhood abuse on the development of a woman's identity. Her intricately designed and compelling novel details the brutal early life of Rebbeca Schwart and follows her into adulthood, one in ...             The Best American Essays of the Century (The Best American Series) Houghton Mifflin, 2001 Authority and beauty I don't think I'm alone in viewing essays as members of a somewhat lower caste than novels and non-fiction books. Maybe it's because I associate the essay with newspapers, and people like George Will who pretend to know more than their readers. I think the editors of ...             Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway Joyce Carol Oates Ecco, 2008 Joyce Carol Oates' Tour De Force In a recent phone conversation I had with a friend, she informed me that she had just finished Joyce Carol Oates' latest book. I replied that I had heard her read from it at an event in Atlanta not long ago. She asked: "What short story did she read from?" I find out ...             The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction W. W. Norton & Company, 1997 I know it's thirty bucks but it's worth it. This 550-page anthology provides the best introduction to modern short fiction writing available to readers. This is "the textbook" for short story writing.             Blonde: A Novel Joyce Carol Oates Harper Perennial, 2001 Ambivalent Ambivalent because that's how the book left me. Maybe confused, certainly affected. I had not read Joyce Carol Oates before and have always been curious what attracted her fans. "Blonde" has a certain 21st century Virginia Woolf style. But, whereas Virginia Woolf ...             The Oxford Book of American Short Stories Oxford University Press, USA, 1994 A solid sampling of U.S. stories "The Oxford Book of American Short Stories," edited by Joyce Carol Oates, is an impressive anthology. The editor herself is well-known as a master writer of short stories, so you know that she has insights into the genre. This is a truly sweeping anthology. The authors ...             Billy Budd and Other Tales Herman Melville Signet Classics, 1998 good and evil Personally, I thought this was a great book. This book follows a man named Billy Budd through the end of his life spent in the English navy. Although this book had some boring parts, it was overall a great story line. I was impressed with story more than the writing, ...             Black Water (Contemporary Fiction, Plume) Joyce Carol Oates Plume, 1993 A True Look at Politicians People say this novel is about Ted and Mary Jo which is correct to a degree. However, it is also about the extraordinary efforts elected representitives will go to save their own hides when things go badly for them both privately and publicly. We saw that in 1969 and ...             The Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer (Signet Classics) Joseph Conrad Signet Classics, 2008 An excellent piece of epistemology! On page 3, the narrator (not Marlow) tells us that "Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a ...             Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers W. W. Norton & Company, 1998 An excellent anthology for creative writers and readers. Joyce Carol Oates combines the best of classic literature by Kafka and Faulkner with contemporary works by Garcia Marquez and King. Each story and poem exemplifies a writing technique or strategy. An example being the two versions of James Joyce's short story ...             Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang Joyce Carol Oates Plume, 1994 LEGS Legs Sadovsky is one of the greatest characters that I've ever encountered. She is absolutely larger than life. I only wish she could have been "heroic" while still being entirely female. Her androgeny is mentioned several times. I understand she is a tomboy with no ...             The Dark Descent Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, ... Tor Books, 1997 Multitudinous tome for the horror and preternatural aficionado This publication rivals most of the horror/ mystery compilations printed elsewhere. Some of the most consequential and prolific ink slingers of the creepy and the dreary are featured here, and they don't disappoint. Here, in this volume, you will find it all. The ...          products you might be interested in search for books anthology, confessions, contemporary, dickinson, gravedigger, hemingway      toavi.com    web we recommend Not to be missed - a quintessentially American story randomly chosen music: The Romantic Piano Concerto, Volume 7