Joyce Carol Oates writing as Rosamond Smith, in one of her more appealing yet perverse outings. rather oddly, this time there is something wonderfully light and stylized in the usual depiction of doubles and deception and murder. the regular heaviness is absent; was Oates in a good mood when she wro...
sometimes it is hard to say no, and sometimes when i love an author, especially an author i've read for much of my life, especially an author whose themes fascinate me, i start to think of them as a part of myself, i start to think of them as that part in which i can see the flaws but can still forg...
joyce carol oates writing as rosamond smith is a writer of thrillers, often ones concerned with dualities within human nature. it is an interesting side project for an amazing writer. in Soul/Mate, she seems rather less concerned with dualities and more concerned with a kind of pastiche of the roman...