FAITHLESS: Tales of Transgression

Oates, Joyce Carol

ISBN 10: 0060185252 / ISBN 13: 9780060185251

Published by The Ecco Press, New York, NY, U.S.A., 2001

About this Item

Signed by author on title page in black ink. Fine, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L18.

Seller Inventory # 8278

Bibliographic Details

• Title: FAITHLESS: Tales of Transgression
• Publisher: The Ecco Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060185252
• ISBN 13: 9780060185251
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed/Inscribed Books
  • Modern Literature
  • Short Story Collections

About this title

Synopsis

The author of Blonde shares a new collection of twenty-four short stories that probe the deep, disturbing heart of America in such works as "Faithless," "Ugly Girl," "Lover," and "Gunlove." 40,000 first printing.

Review

'Joyce Carol Oates is a writer who always takes your breath away.' Mail on Sunday

'”Faithless: Tales of Transgression” makes its brisk incisions into the themes of terror, female passion, collapsing male identity, loneliness, divorce, revenge ...Again and again [Oates] finds new language to describe the immensity of desire...She twists back against our assumptions, seeking always the gristly pop of revelation.' New York Times Book Review

'Oates is a massive literary heavyweight, and many earnestly believe she could knock the other contenders for the title of Great American Novelist – Updike, Roth, Wolfe, Mailer.' Guardian

'Oates is an inspired writer, and a formidable psychologist. She has a thrilling way of grasping an emotion, wasting no time in judicious rumination but launching herself straight at the aching heart of the matter.' Independent

‘Oates’s precise and inspired writing is close to witchcraft.’ Jeanne Moreau

‘Novelists such as John Updike, Philip Roth, Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer slug it out for the title of the Great American Novelist. But maybe they’re wrong. Maybe, just maybe, the Great American Novelist is a woman.’ The Herald