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In this sexy, racy collection of short prose takes by a master of the form, Joyce Carol Oates makes her own appointment with character and event--a sort of extended sequential reverie that surprises and sometimes shocks, but always satisfies. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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Library Journal Review

From the ever-prolific Oates comes a collection of very short stories of sad romance. Her characters, thoughtful and disturbed, are familiar figures to her fans, and even some of the very brief stories flash and sparkle. Too often, however, this collection seems to consist of literary exercises and cast-offs from would-be novels, fragments without a story to bind them together. Emotional, sexy, and bleak, these snippets tantalize but rarely amount to much. For comprehensive collections. Ann H. Fisher, Radford P.L., Va. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publishers Weekly Review

In 44 short narratives ranging in length from a simple paragraph of five sentences to a dozen pages at most, Oates has captured precisely an essential presence and instant in the lives of her characters. These short takes offer brilliant bursts of energy that are both dazzling and disappointing for their ephemeral nature. From ``Two Doors,'' in which an old man is reminded of the moment in his youth when he accidently intruded on a half-dressed female relative, to ``Anecdote,'' in which a woman isn't quite convinced that the man who failed to acknowledge her on the street is not her lover, Oates's focus is on moments of consciousness. In ``Tick,'' a woman whose husband has left her is tranquil and self-sufficient, resisting ``the temptation to succumb to thoughts of despair, self-hatred. Easier, she thinks, to hate yourself than to respect yourself; it involves less imagination.'' But when she discovers a tick embedded in her scalp she loses her independence to such a degree that she now longs for a reconciliation, and even a baby. As always, there is an edge to Oates's prose, and even when there is no central disturbance, the calm is uneasy, as though eruption may be imminent. Logical as daydreams, with endings similarly as interrupted or unforeseen, these stories reveal a master of the form writing at her efficient, full-tilt best. (September) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

Bare-bones Oates in a collection of short short stories that exhibits her skill at limning those singular moments of human desire and despair. The author isolates the emotional impact of these instants with extraordinary insight into the souls of her characters, even if the glimpse lingers only for seconds. While some of the pieces appear to be thoughts for longer stories-- maybe even a novel, if the author can find a few free hours-- the total effect is pure Oates all the way. Among Oates' many novels is You Must Remember This [BKL Je 1 87]. JB.

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Joyce Carol Oates was born on June 16, 1938 in Lockport, New York. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Syracuse University and a master's degree in English from the University of Wisconsin.

She is the author of numerous novels and collections of short stories. Her works include We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, Bellefleur, You Must Remember This, Because It Is Bitter, Because It Is My Heart, Solstice, Marya : A Life, and Give Me Your Heart. She has received numerous awards including the National Book Award for Them, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Literature. She was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with her title Lovely, Dark, Deep. She also wrote a series of suspense novels under the pseudonym Rosamond Smith. In 2015, her novel The Accursed became listed as a bestseller on the iBooks chart.

She worked as a professor of English at the University of Windsor, before becoming the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. She and her late husband Raymond J. Smith operated a small press and published a literary magazine, The Ontario Review.

(Bowker Author Biography)