| ISBN |
9781801104647 (paperback) |
| Name |
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- author. |
| Uniform title |
Short stories. Selections (Night, neon) |
| Title |
Neon, night : and other stories of suspense / Joyce Carol Oates. |
| Published |
London : Head of Zeus, 2022. |
| ©2021 |
| Description |
299 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
"An Apollo book". |
| Originally published: New York: The Mysterious Press, 2021. |
| Contents |
Detour -- Miss Golden Dreams 1949 -- Wanting -- Parole hearing, California Institution for Women, Chino, CA -- Intimacy -- The flagellant -- Vaping: a user's manual -- Night, neon. |
| Summary |
These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s magazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's ideals of beauty and womanhood. Taken as a whole, the collection forms a poignant tapestry of regular people searching for their place in a social hierarchy, often with devastating and disastrous results. Rendered with stylish, fresh writing from an author who continues to push the envelope, the stories deftly weave in and out of a stream-of-consciousness to reflect the ways we process traumatic experiences and impart that uncertainty and uneasiness to the reader. Originally appearing in publications as disparate as Harper's, Vice, and Conjunctions, the stories comprising Night, Neon showcase Oates' mastery of the suspense story and her relentless use of the form to conduct unapologetically honest explorations of American identity. |
| Subjects |
Psychological fiction, American |
| Short stories, American -- 21st century |
| Genre |
Thrillers (Fiction) |
| Psychological fiction |
| Short stories |
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