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001			ocn986954552
003			OCoLC
005			20180722225725.0
008			170829s2018 nyu 000 j eng
010			_a 2017038048
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dYDX _dBDX _dORX _dT3D _dOCLCO _dOCLCQ _dOCLCO _dOCLCF _dCLE _dBUR _dTXBAY _dINR _dIUK _dJQM _dT3L _dSXP _dIHX _dYDX _dOCLCO _dFLYDC _dNFG
019			_a1020794298 _a1022759534
020			_a9780062795786 _qhardcover
020			_a0062795783 _qhardcover
020			_a9780062795793
020			_a0062795791
035			_a(OCoLC)986954552 _z(OCoLC)1020794298 _z(OCoLC)1022759534
042			_apcc
092			_aOates, _bJoyce
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aOates, Joyce Carol, _d1938- _eauthor. _928659
240	1	0	_aShort stories. _kSelections
245	1	0	_aBeautiful days : _bstories / _cJoyce Carol Oates.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bEcco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, _c[2018]
300			_a334 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien." In the diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explores the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves, who assert their independence in acts of bold and often irrevocable defiance. "Fleuve Bleu" exemplifies the rich sensuousness of Oates's prose as lovers married to other persons vow to establish, in their intimacy, a ruthlessly honest, truth-telling authenticity missing elsewhere in their complicated lives, with unexpected results. In "Big Burnt," set on lushly rendered Lake George, in the Adirondacks, a cunningly manipulative university professor exploits a too-trusting woman in a way she could never have anticipated. "The Nice Girl" depicts a young woman who has been, through her life, infuriatingly "nice," until she is forced to come to terms with the raw desperation of her deepest self. In a more experimental but no less intimate mode, "Les beaux jours" examines the ambiguities of an intensely erotic, exploitative relationship between a "master" artist and his adoring young female model. And the tragic "Undocumented Alien" depicts a young African student enrolled in an American university who is suddenly stripped of his student visa and forced to undergo a terrifying test of courage. In these stories, as elsewhere in her fiction, Joyce Carol Oates exhibits her fascination with the social, psychological, and moral boundaries that govern our behavior--until the hour when they do not"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"A new collection of stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, mysterious and surreal, and perfectly pitched for the confusion of the current political landscape"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0		_aFleuve bleu -- Big burnt -- Owl eyes -- Except you bless me -- The quiet car -- The bereaved -- Les beaux jours -- Fractal -- Undocumented alien -- Donald Barthelme saved from oblivion -- The memorial field at Hazard, Minnesota.
650		0	_aWomen _vFiction. _948213
650		0	_aGirls _vFiction. _948736
650		0	_aDanger perception _vFiction. _9331807
650		0	_aAmerican fiction _xWomen authors. _931674
655		7	_aThrillers (Fiction) _2lcgft _9465
655		7	_aShort stories. _2lcgft _91945
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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