- Main Menu-

Catalogue Display

Extenuating circumstances / Joyce Carol Oates.

Item Information Catalogue Record 700026181 .
Catalogue Information Catalogue Record 700026181 .

Item Information
Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
LPF OATE	Large Print Fiction		Adult Lending	. Available .

Reserve Title Catalogue Record 700026181

. Catalogue Record 700026181 ItemInfo Beginning of record . Catalogue Record 700026181 ItemInfo Top of page .

Catalogue Information
Field name	Details
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.
Production & Copyright Details	©2022.
Physical Description	615 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Content type	text
Note	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
Added Entry - Personal Name	Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Short stories.

Catalogue Information 700026181 Beginning of record . Catalogue Information 700026181 Top of page .