Marya: A Life | Related Titles

With the publication of Marya, Oates returned to the rural landscape of her early fiction set in western New York. Its beginning chapters connect to Oates's large output of stories about adolescents. Its chapter on Father Shearing connects to the theological issues Oates has addressed in many essays, particularly ones on Kafka and Flannery O'Connor in New Heaven, New Earth (1974), and on O'Connor and Simone Weil in The Profane Art (1983), in numerous short stories, and in Son of the Morning (1978). Its later chapters about Marya's academic life address issues...

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