Black Dahlia & White Rose: Stories Hardcover - 2012
by Joyce Carol Oates
A brilliant collection of short fiction from National Book Award winner and "New York Times"-bestselling author JOates, one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.
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A wildly inventive new collection ofstories by Joyce Carol Oates that chartsthe surprising ways in which the worldwe think we know can unexpectedlyreveal its darker contours
The New York Times has hailed Joyce Carol Oates as "adangerous writer in the best sense of the word, one whotakes risks almost obsessively with energy and relish."Black Dahlia & White Rose, a collection of eleven previouslyuncollected stories, showcases the keen rewards ofOates's relentless brio and invention. In one beautifullyhoned story after another, Oates explores the menace thatlurks at the edges of and intrudes upon even the seeminglysafest of lives--and maps with rare emotional acuity thetransformational cost of such intrusions.
Unafraid to venture into no-man's-lands both real andsurreal, Oates takes readers deep into dangerous territory, from a maximum-security prison--vividly delineatingthe heartbreaking and unexpected atmosphere of such aninstitution--to the inner landscapes of two beautiful andmysteriously doomed young women in 1940s Los Angeles: Elizabeth Short, otherwise known as the Black Dahlia, victim of a long-unsolved and particularly brutal murder, and her roommate Norma Jeane Baker, soon to becomeMarilyn Monroe. Whether exploring the psychologicalcompulsion of the wife of a well-to-do businessman whois ravished by, and elopes with, a lover who is not what heseems or the uneasily duplicitous relationships betweenyoung women and their parents, Black Dahlia & White Roseexplores the compelling intertwining of dread and desire, the psychic pull and trauma of domestic life, and resonatesat every turn with Oates's mordant humor and hertrenchant observation.
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- Title Black Dahlia & White Rose: Stories
- Author Joyce Carol Oates
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco Press, New York
- Date 2012-09
- ISBN 9780062195692 / 0062195697
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Dixon
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Short stories, American
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booklist, 09/01/2012, Page 39
- Kirkus Reviews, 08/15/2012, Page 0
- Library Journal, 11/15/2012, Page 79
- New York Times Book Review, 01/20/2013, Page 15
- Publishers Weekly, 09/10/2012, Page 0
- Shelf Awareness, 09/14/2012, Page 0
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