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Synopsis
Forty-four short, compact stories by a contemporary master of the genre build from simple setting to enormous emotional intensity
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"Vintage Oates...Short, sharp shots (many of them aimed at sensuality and love) from the master of moody foreboding."-- "Kirkus Reviews
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The Assignation - Stories
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc, 1989
ISBN 10: 0060972467
ISBN 13: 9780060972462
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A woman's lover seems not to recognize her on the street. A teenage girl accepts a ride from a stranger in a rust-speckled Cadillac. An old man is obsessed by the memory of his innocent childhood intrusion on a half-dressed aunt.In forty-four very short, very powerful stories, Joyce Carol Oates fashions brief, intensely compact dramas out of the unwieldy material of human experience. The stories in The Assignation are infused with a radiant intensity, wrote James Atlas in the New York Times Book Review, and they convey the depth and scope of a novel in a few charged pages. The Assignation is an electric display of the talents that make Joyce Carol Oates one of our finest short story writers. Seller Inventory # 00107426125
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The Assignation - Stories
Published by
HarperCollins Publishers Inc, 1989
ISBN 10: 0060972467
ISBN 13: 9780060972462
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Seller: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Fair. A woman's lover seems not to recognize her on the street. A teenage girl accepts a ride from a stranger in a rust-speckled Cadillac. An old man is obsessed by the memory of his innocent childhood intrusion on a half-dressed aunt.In forty-four very short, very powerful stories, Joyce Carol Oates fashions brief, intensely compact dramas out of the unwieldy material of human experience. The stories in The Assignation are infused with a radiant intensity, wrote James Atlas in the New York Times Book Review, and they convey the depth and scope of a novel in a few charged pages. The Assignation is an electric display of the talents that make Joyce Carol Oates one of our finest short story writers. Seller Inventory # 00095869299
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The Assignation: Stories (Perennial Fictional Library)
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The Assignation - Stories
Published by
HarperCollins Publishers Inc, 1989
ISBN 10: 0060972467
ISBN 13: 9780060972462
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Seller: World of Books Inc, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Fair. A woman's lover seems not to recognize her on the street. A teenage girl accepts a ride from a stranger in a rust-speckled Cadillac. An old man is obsessed by the memory of his innocent childhood intrusion on a half-dressed aunt.In forty-four very short, very powerful stories, Joyce Carol Oates fashions brief, intensely compact dramas out of the unwieldy material of human experience. The stories in The Assignation are infused with a radiant intensity, wrote James Atlas in the New York Times Book Review, and they convey the depth and scope of a novel in a few charged pages. The Assignation is an electric display of the talents that make Joyce Carol Oates one of our finest short story writers. Seller Inventory # CIN0060972467A
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The Assignation - Stories
Published by
HarperCollins Publishers Inc, 1989
ISBN 10: 0060972467
ISBN 13: 9780060972462
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A woman's lover seems not to recognize her on the street. A teenage girl accepts a ride from a stranger in a rust-speckled Cadillac. An old man is obsessed by the memory of his innocent childhood intrusion on a half-dressed aunt.In forty-four very short, very powerful stories, Joyce Carol Oates fashions brief, intensely compact dramas out of the unwieldy material of human experience. The stories in The Assignation are infused with a radiant intensity, wrote James Atlas in the New York Times Book Review, and they convey the depth and scope of a novel in a few charged pages. The Assignation is an electric display of the talents that make Joyce Carol Oates one of our finest short story writers. Seller Inventory # CIN0060972467VG
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