Beautiful days : stories
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New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018].
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Published
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018].
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Book
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334 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"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"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Oates, J. C. (2018). Beautiful days: stories (First edition.). Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-. 2018. Beautiful Days: Stories. New York, NY: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-. Beautiful Days: Stories New York, NY: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Oates, J. C. (2018). Beautiful days: stories. First edn. New York, NY: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Oates, Joyce Carol. Beautiful Days: Stories First edition., Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018.
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