High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories, 1966-2006 - Hardcover

Oates, Joyce Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060501197 ISBN 13: 9780060501198

Publisher: Ecco Pr, 2006

Synopsis

A seminal anthology of outstanding short fiction, selected by the author herself, features selections from such collections as The Wheel of Love, Marriages and Infidelities, and Heat, as well as nine previously unpublished works. 30,000 first printing.

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Review:

"Illustrious author Joyce Carol Oates is back with a seminal collection spanning five decades...This anthology is a must-read."--Harper's Bazaar

"This big, lavish collection will do for Oates what similar volumes did for Katherine Anne Porter and John Cheever."--Houston Chronicle

"This collection of stories that Oates feels are her best is as significant as it is breathtaking."--Booklist

"Oates is just a fearless writer...[with] her brave heart and her impossibly lush and dead-on imaginative powers."--Los Angeles Times

Oates is just a fearless writer...[with] her brave heart and her impossibly lush and dead-on imaginative powers. --Los Angeles Times"

This big, lavish collection will do for Oates what similar volumes did for Katherine Anne Porter and John Cheever. --Houston Chronicle"

This collection of stories that Oates feels are her best is as significant as it is breathtaking. --Booklist"

Illustrious author Joyce Carol Oates is back with a seminal collection spanning five decades...This anthology is a must-read. --Harper's Bazaar"

About the Author:

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ecco Pr
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060501197
• ISBN 13: 9780060501198
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 664