High crime area [sound recording] / Joyce Carol Oates.
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SoundPublication details: [Minneapolis, MN] : HighBridge Audio, 2014.Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 6 sound discs (420 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 1622314646
- 9781622314645
- Short stories. Selections
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Main Library | Audiobook | FICTION Oates Joyce | Available | 33111007896406 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In the title story, a white aspiring professor is convinced she is being followed. No need to panic-she has a handgun stowed away in her purse, just in case. But when she turns to confront her black male shadow, the situation isn't what she expects. In "The Rescuer," a promising graduate student detours to inner-city Trenton, New Jersey, to save her brother from a downward spiral. But she soon finds out there may be more to his world than to hers. And in "The Last Man of Letters," the world-renowned author X embarks on a final grand tour of Europe. He has money, fame, but not a whole lot of manners. A little thing like etiquette couldn't bring a man like X down, could it? In these biting and beautiful pieces, Oates confronts, one by one, the demons within us, demonstrating that sometimes, it's not the human side that wins out.
Compact disc.
Duration: 07:00:00
Read by Julia Whelan, Ray Chase, Tamara Marston, Chris Patton, Luci Christian, Donna Postel.
In a collection of eight stories, Joyce Carol Oates, unparalleled as an investigator into the intricacies of human failing, deftly tests the bonds between damaged individuals - a brother and sister, a teacher and student, two strangers on a subway - in the fearless prose for which she is justly celebrated.