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Extenuating circumstances / Joyce Carol Oates.
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ISBN
9781638084051
Classification
LP OATE
Personal Name
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Title
Extenuating circumstances / Joyce Carol Oates.
Edition
Large print edition.
Production & Copyright Details
Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2022.
©2022.
Physical Description
615 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Content type
text
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Set in 16point Times New Roman.
Contents Note
The death of Mrs. Sheer -- By the river -- Queen of the night -- The revenge of the foot, 1970 -- The doll -- Little wife -- Yarrow -- Haunted -- Death Valley -- Craps -- Family -- Ladies and gentlemen: -- Why don't you come live with me, it's time -- The buck -- The model -- Extenuating circumstances -- The girl who was to die -- Poor Bibi -- The undesirable table -- The hand-puppet -- Valentine -- The collector of hearts -- The sons of Angus MacElster.
Summary Note
Two hitmen in a depressed rust belt town struggle with a job gone wrong. A girl witnesses a horrifying accident and carries it with her for the rest of her life. Medical students bring a severed foot to a college party. Five-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Joyce Carol Oates has made a career of exploring the forbidden corners of human experience, and the stories collected here, spanning her first three decades as a writer, are among her most unsettling and unforgettable works to date. Originally published in long out-of-print volumes, these tales have not appeared in any form this century ? until now. Formally fresh and endlessly experimental, they show a writer boldly engaging with disturbing truths and terrifying possibilities, and deconstructing the tropes and expectations of traditional prose writing as she does so. But beyond their stylistic ingenuity, these are creepy, suspenseful stories that cut straight to the bone, their darkness will linger long after the final page is turned.
Subject - Topical Term
Horror tales, American
Assassins -- Fiction
Victims of crimes -- Fiction
Large type books
Suspense fiction, American
Subject - Genre
Large print books
Horror fiction
Short stories
Thrillers (Fiction)
Psychological fiction
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Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Short stories.
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