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The (other) you : stories / Joyce Carol Oates.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: SoundSoundPublisher: [New York] : HarperAudio, [2021]Copyright date: ℗2021Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 8 audio discs (10 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 3/4 inContent type:
  • spoken word
Media type:
  • audio
Carrier type:
  • audio disc
ISBN:
  • 9780063035256
  • 0063035251
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections. Spoken word
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
The (other) you -- The women friends -- The bloody head -- Where are you? -- The crack -- Waiting for Kizer -- Blue guide -- Assassin -- Sinners in the hands of an angry God -- Hospice/honeymoon -- Subaqueous -- The happy place -- Nightgrief -- Final interview -- The unexpected.
Read by Kate Reading and Malcolm Hillgartner.Summary: In this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives listeners might have led if they would have 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: an arresting and incisive vision into these alternative realities, a collection that ponders the constraints all face given the circumstances of birth and temperaments, and that examines the competing pressures and expectations on women in particular. Finely attuned to the nuances of social and psychic selves.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Audiobook Adult Audiobook Main Library Audiobook FICTION OATES, JOYCE CAROL Available 33111009926797
Total holds: 0

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Read by Kate Reading and Malcolm Hillgartner.

Compact discs.

The (other) you -- The women friends -- The bloody head -- Where are you? -- The crack -- Waiting for Kizer -- Blue guide -- Assassin -- Sinners in the hands of an angry God -- Hospice/honeymoon -- Subaqueous -- The happy place -- Nightgrief -- Final interview -- The unexpected.

In this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives listeners might have led if they would have 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: an arresting and incisive vision into these alternative realities, a collection that ponders the constraints all face given the circumstances of birth and temperaments, and that examines the competing pressures and expectations on women in particular. Finely attuned to the nuances of social and psychic selves.

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