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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Joyce Carol OatesPublish date:2021-02-09Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Ecco PressISBN-13:9780063035201ISBN-10:63035200UPC:9780063035201Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Psychological, LiterarySize:8.60 x 5.90 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCWC35Q8BY

A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we'd chosen a different path, from a master of the short story

In this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives we might have led if we'd made different choices. An accomplished writer returns to her childhood home of Yewville, but the homecoming stirs troubled thoughts about the person she might have been if she'd never left. A man in prison contemplates the gravity of his irreversible act. A student's affair with a professor results in a pregnancy that alters the course of her life forever. Even the experience of reading is investigated as one that can create a profound transformation: "You could enter another time, the time of the book."

The (Other) You is an arresting and incisive vision into these alternative realities, a collection that ponders the constraints we all face given the circumstances of our birth and our temperaments, and that examines the competing pressures and expectations on women in particular. Finely attuned to the nuances of our social and psychic selves, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates here why she remains one of our most celebrated and relevant literary figures.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Ecco PressISBN-13:9780063035201ISBN-10:63035200UPC:9780063035201Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Psychological, LiterarySize:8.60 x 5.90 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCWC35Q8BY
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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 2019 Jerusalem Prize, 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. 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.

Publisher: Ecco Press

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