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  1. Joyce Carol Oates has 828 books on Goodreads with 1202243 ratings. Joyce Carol Oatess most popular book is We Were the Mulvaneys.

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      Editions for Blonde: 2253152854 (Mass Market Paperback...

    • Beasts

      Beasts, Joyce Carol Oates Beasts is a novella by Joyce Carol...

    • Mudwoman

      A riveting novel that explores the high price of success in...

    • Carthage

      Carthage - Books by Joyce Carol Oates - Goodreads

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    Joyce Carol Oates is one of most prolific and versatile contemporary writer in the United States of America. She has produced so much work and on various subjects, but most of which focus majorly on intellectual, sexual and spiritual decline of modern America society.

    Joyce Carol Oates, an acclaimed writer popularly known for novels such as ‘The Falls’, ‘A Garden of Earthly Delights’ and ‘them’ that won the National Book Award, was born on the 16th of June 1938, in Lockport, New York. Joyce dad, Fredrick James Oates was a tool designer, while her mum, Caroline was a homemaker or housewife of Hungarian descent. C...

    In 1961, after receiving her master’s degree and beginning her Ph.D. in English at Rice University, Joyce Oates came across one of her stories in Foley’s collection of Best American Short Stories. It was then that she decided to launch her writing career (become a full-time writer) and published her first book, a collection of short stories in 1963...

    Throughout her writing career, Joyce has distributed her energies amongst various projects simultaneously. Her ‘On Boxing’, book-length essay published in 1987 resulted in more than one appearance mentioning on a televised boxing bout. Almost simultaneously, she submitted a mystery novel under a pseudonym to a publisher and had the delight of havin...

    Some of Oates’s later publications include the 1990 ‘Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart’ where she returns to her familiar themes of violence and race, the 1992 ‘Black Water’, an narration of a catastrophic encounter between a young woman and a powerful U.S. senator at a party, and the 1993 ‘Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang’, which...

  2. Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction.

    • We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates.
    • Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates.
    • The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates.
    • Bellefleur by Joyce Carol Oates.
    • them.
    • by Joyce Carol Oates. One of the books in the very loose Wonderland Quartet (loose in that the books aren’t directly linked, but all deal with class and race relations in the U.S.)
    • Wonderland.
    • by Joyce Carol Oates. Another early novel, this one completes the loose Wonderland Quartet of which them is a part, and Oates considers it her most bizarre and obsessive novel.
  3. Aug 22, 2022 · BABYSITTER, by Joyce Carol Oates. It is 1977. Hannah Jarrett, an attractive white woman in her late 30s, is living the American dream: a wealthy husband, two kids, a home in the Michigan...

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  5. Jan 1, 2004 · Joyce Carol Oates. It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself into the roaring waters of Niagara Falls. Ariah, "the Widow Bride of the Falls," begins a relentless seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting for his body to be found.

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