Jan 1, 2010

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Author: Joyce Carol Oates
First Published: 2001
Type of Work: Short fiction
Time of Work: The late twentieth century
Setting: United States
Genres: Short fiction
Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Mothers, Abused persons, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Beauty, Child abuse, Domestic violence, Feminism, Fantasy, Abandonment, Mass murderers or serial killers
Locales: United States

Invariably, when reviewers discuss Joyce Carol Oates, they resort to numbers, noting—with a mixture of envious astonishment and superior scorn—her prodigious production of more than seventy books of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and criticism since 1964. One critic suggested that probably only Oates herself knows precisely how many books she has published, since she occasionally uses a pseudonym. Of that impressive corpus of work, two dozen books are short story collections, prompting some reviewers to anoint Oates a master of the modern short story, comparing her to Flannery...

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