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Wild Nights! Deluxe Edition

Stories about the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway

Wild Nights! Deluxe Edition( )
Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
ISBN:978-0-06-143482-2
Publication Date:May 2009
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $24.99
Book Description:

Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Samuel Clemens ("Mark Twain"), Henry James, Ernest Hemingway-Joyce Carol Oates evokes each of these American literary icons in her newest work of prose fiction, poignantly and audaciously reinventing the climactic events of their lives. In subtly nuanced language suggestive of each of these writers, Oates explores the mysterious regions of the unknowable self that is "genius."

Darkly hilarious, brilliant, and brazen, Wild Nights! is Joyce...
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Book Details
Pages:272
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Short Stories (Single Author)
Fiction / Biographical
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.487 x 20.32 x 1.549 cm
Book Weight:0.209 Kilograms
Author Biography
Oates, Joyce Carol (Author)
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.

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