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The Assignation - by Joyce Carol Oates (Paperback)

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Highlights

  • A woman's lover seems not to recognize her on the street.
  • Author(s): Joyce Carol Oates
  • 208 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, General

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About the Book



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.



Book Synopsis



A woman's lover seems not to recognize her on the street. A teenage girl accepts a ride from a stranger in a rust-speckled Cadillac. An old man is obsessed by the memory of his innocent childhood intrusion on a half-dressed aunt.

In forty-four very short, very powerful stories, Joyce Carol Oates fashions brief, intensely compact dramas out of the unwieldy material of human experience. The stories in The Assignation are infused with a "radiant intensity," wrote James Atlas in the New York Times Book Review, and they convey the depth and scope of a novel in a few charged pages. The Assignation is an electric display of the talents that make Joyce Carol Oates one of our finest short story writers.



Review Quotes




"Vintage Oates...Short, sharp shots (many of them aimed at sensuality and love) from the master of moody foreboding."-- "Kirkus Reviews
Dimensions (Overall): 8.5 Inches (H) x 5.54 Inches (W) x .52 Inches (D)
Weight: .59 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 208
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: General
Publisher: Ecco Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Language: English
Street Date: August 1, 1996
TCIN: 85119405
UPC: 9780880014403
Item Number (DPCI): 247-53-5905
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.52 inches length x 5.54 inches width x 8.5 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.59 pounds
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