Night, neon : tales of mystery and suspense / Joyce Carol Oates.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : The Mysterious Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First Mysterious Press editionDescription: 299 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781613162309
- 1613162308
- Short stories. Selections
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Detour
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Curious
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Miss Golden Dreams 1949
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Wanting
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Parole hearing, California Institution for Women, Chino, CA
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Intimacy
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Flagellant
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Vaping: a user's manual
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Mystery | OATES, JOYCE | Available | 33111010660872 | ||||
Adult Book | Main Library | Mystery | OATES, JOYCE | Available | 33111010775662 | ||||
Adult Book | Northport Library | Mystery | OATES, JOYCE | Available | 33111009848850 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery & suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life--from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s magazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's ideals of beauty and womanhood.
Taken as a whole, the collection forms a poignant tapestry of regular people searching for their place in a social hierarchy, often with devastating and disastrous results. Rendered with stylish, fresh writing from an author who continues to push the envelope, the stories deftly weave in and out of a stream-of-consciousness to reflect the ways we process traumatic experiences and impart that uncertainty and uneasiness to the reader.
Originally appearing in publications as disparate as Harper's, Vice, and Conjunctions, the stories comprising Night, Neon showcase Oates' mastery of the suspense story--and her relentless use of the form to conduct unapologetically honest explorations of American identity.
Presents nine tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life--from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s magazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's ideals of beauty and womanhood.
Detour -- Curious -- Miss Golden Dreams 1949 -- Wanting -- Parole hearing, California Institution for Women, Chino, CA -- Intimacy -- The flagellant -- Vaping: a user's manual -- Night, neon.