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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is the author of more than 70 books, including novels, short story collections, poetry volumes, plays, essays, and criticism, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde. Among her many honors are the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and the National Book Award. Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

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Birth date: 1938-06-16

Website: www.usfca.edu/jco

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Criticism, Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

Joyce Carol Oates's Books

My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales - Neil Gaiman, Alissa Nutting, Carmen Giménez Smith, Naoko Awa, Lily Hoang, Hiromi Itō, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Kellie Wells, Michael Mejia, Lucy Corin, Jonathon Keats, Ilya Kaminsky, Rabih Alameddine, Karen Brennan, Katherine Vaz, Timothy Schaffert, Sarah Shun-lien Byn

Stories: All-New Tales - Lawrence Block, Richard Adams, Roddy Doyle, Jeffery Deaver, Chuck Palahniuk, Joyce Carol Oates, Diana Wynne Jones, Peter Straub, Michael Marshall Smith, Michael Swanwick, Tim Powers, Joanne Harris, Gene Wolfe, Michael Moorcock, Stewart O'Nan, Jeffrey Ford, Walter Mosley,

We Were the Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates

Heart of Darkness/The Secret Sharer - Joyce Carol Oates, Joseph Conrad

Half-Minute Horrors - Avi, Gail Carson Levine, Libba Bray, Joyce Carol Oates, James Patterson, Gregory Maguire, Lane Smith, Adele Griffin, Katherine Applegate, Jenny Nimmo, Jonathan Lethem, Tui T. Sutherland, Adam Rex, R.L. Stine, Michael Connelly, Jerry Spinelli, Gloria Whelan, Sarah Weeks, An

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears - Tanith Lee, Michael Cadnum, Joyce Carol Oates, Jane Yolen, Ellen Datlow, John Brunner, Kathe Koja, Gene Wolfe, Susan Palwick, Nancy Kress, Lisa Goldstein, Nancy A. Collins, Garry Douglas Kilworth, Terri Windling, Gahan Wilson, Susan Wade, Ellen Steiber, Roberta Lannes, Mil

Blonde (Ldp Litterature) (French Edition) - Joyce Carol Oates, Claude Seban

The Gravedigger's Daughter - Joyce Carol Oates

999: Twenty-nine Original Tales of Horror and Suspense - Joyce Carol Oates, Bentley Little, Ed Gorman, Eric Van Lustbader, Michael Marshall Smith, Tim Powers, Thomas F. Monteleone, Chet Williamson, Gene Wolfe, F. Paul Wilson, Joe R. Lansdale, Thomas M. Disch, Ramsey Campbell, T.E.D. Klein, Thomas Ligotti, Edward Bryant, Nancy

Black Heart, Ivory Bones - Delia Sherman, Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, Debra Cash, Russell Blackford, Severna Park, Ellen Steiber, Bryn Kanar, Emma Hardesty, Leah Cutter, Scott Bradfield, Greg Costikyan, Terri Windling, Howard Waldrop, Brian M. Stableford, Esther M. Friesner, Susanna Clarke, Charles de

American Gothic Tales - Bruce McAllister, Joyce Carol Oates

Big Mouth and Ugly Girl - Joyce Carol Oates

Lovecraft Unbound - Ellen Datlow, Dale Bailey, Richard Bowes, Anna Tambour, Brian Evenson, Amanda Downum, Joel Lane, Holly Phillips, William Browning Spencer, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Michael Cisco, Marc Laidlaw, Michael Chabon, Lavie Tidhar, Joyce Carol Oates, Simon Kurt Unsworth, Michael She

Rape: A Love Story (Papel de liar) - Joyce Carol Oates

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Abandoned by Booklikes rated it

5 years ago

text Miao Dao

This one dragged badly. And I guessed at what was going on and just felt letdown by it. The ending was a surprise though with Mia and her mother. I just think this should have been more tightly edited. I don't know if it was the writing style or flow (okay it was) but I didn't care for this one much...

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FatherCraneMadeMeDoIt rated it

5 years ago

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For more reviews, check out my blog: craft-cycleI will start by saying that I love reading retellings, especially fairy tale retellings. I don't recall really liking fairy tales all that much growing up, but now as a adult, I cannot get enough of fresh spins on the classics.However, I was kind of di...

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Lucy Goodfellow Reviews rated it

6 years ago

text My Life as a Rat by Joyce Carol Oates

This is a complicated book.It’s as much about Violet Rue as it is about the men that abuse her and the women that allow this abuse to happen. Although the book takes place over a number of years, Violets lack of character growth is reflective of the cycles of abuse that she finds herself in, which I...

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Mirkat Always Reading rated it

6 years ago

text The Hazards of Time Travel

Adriane Strohl is a seventeen-year-old high-school senior living in a not-too-distant future version of America, the Reconstituted North American States (NAS), which seems to have involved incorporating the U.S. and Canada under an increasingly totalitarian regime where there is a single political p...

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Chris' Fish Place rated it

6 years ago

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t's interesting using this book in a class. The Swan stories are the most popular, and the quiet ones about relationships confuse people for some reason. I liked "Warm-Mouth" far more on this re-read.Old ReviewThere is a misnomer on the cover of this book. Some short stories in this volume have not...

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