Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway - Hardcover

Oates, Joyce Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061434795 ISBN 13: 9780061434792

Publisher: Ecco Pr, 2008

Synopsis

Reimagines the final days of five major American writers, in a collection of short works written in the subtly nuanced language style of each. By the National Book Award-winning author of The Gravedigger's Daughter. 35,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

“...when tackling Wild Nights!...I found myself not only enthralled but transported.” (Washington Times)

“Our most industrious writer back at the anvil, making her usual unholy racket, while simultaneously throwing off sporadic sparks of unalloyed brilliance.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“...an imaginative, impressive work that spotlights yet another side of Oates’ prodigious talent.” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

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: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0061434795
• ISBN 13: 9780061434792
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 238