: Joyce Carol Oates
: High Crime Area Tales of Darkness and Dread
: Grove Atlantic
: 9780802192134
: 1
: CHF 29.90
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: Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews
: English
Eight stories from the author of A Book of American Martyrs that display her 'mastery of imagery and stream of consciousness' (Kirkus Reviews). ? Joyce Carol Oates is an unparalleled investigator of human personality. In these eight stories, she deftly tests the bonds between damaged individuals-brother and sister. teacher and student, two lonesome strangers on a subway-in the beautiful, bracing prose that has become her signature. ? In the title story, a white, aspiring professor in Detroit tries to shake a black, male shadow during the summer of the city's 1967 race riots. In 'The Rescuer,' a promising graduate student detours to inner-city Trenton, New Jersey, to save her brother from a downward spiral, only to find herself entranced by his dangerous new world. Meanwhile, a young woman prowls the New York City subways in search of her perfect man in 'Lorelei.' In each of these short stories, Oates portrays a desperate confrontation with the demons inside us. Sometimes it's the human who wins, and sometimes it's the demon. ? 'Oates offers unexpected glimmers of redemption amid the grotesquerie, degradation, and exploitation that fill this collection's eight tales.' -Publishers Weekly