High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 - Softcover

Oates, Joyce Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060501200 ISBN 13: 9780060501204

Publisher: Ecco, 2019

Synopsis

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).

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Review:

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

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

"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

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
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0060501200
• ISBN 13: 9780060501204
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 688