by Joyce Carol Oates
This is a very short novella that I picked up for my husband who has been trying to write sex scenes and is not sure how graphic things can be. I had not read this (when I picked it up for him), but the title was provocative and I figured it would have some graphic yet literary sex (if anyone has a...
NOTE : see this review and more on http://cocainepages.wordpress.comI liked this. Even though some parts of it were unbelievably gross, I liked it. Joyce Carol Oates is a very graphic writer, she makes her readers really see the brutal images she portrays through short, sharp sentences that create a...
Intrigued by the title, I picked up Rape: A Love Story on a whim. I've been wanting to read an Oates novel and decided I'd start with this one. For such a compelling title, the book was oddly and disappointingly shallow. I didn't dislike it, but it certainly didn't engage me as I expected. At only 1...
Even though I gave this book only 3 stars, I admit I've fallen in love with Oates (this is my third Oates book). Unlike the other two, it wasn't the characters I fell in love with (maybe this reflects in my rating) but the writing is still superb. She has such a poetic way of depicting humanity in a...
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