High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006

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“This rich volume…succeeds in reminding us how far this indefatigable chronicler of all our lives has traveled, and how important it is that we keep on reading her.” –Boston Globe

No other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates. High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 gathers short fiction from the acclaimed author’s seminal collections and includes eleven new tales that further demonstrate the breathtaking artistry and striking originality of an incomparable talent who “has imbued the American short story with an edgy vitality and raw social surfaces” (Chicago Tribune).

As Joyce Carol Oates writes in her Afterword: “I think that I can speak for most short story writers in saying that each of our stories exacts from us the same approximate commitment and hope. Prose fiction is, in essence, the realization of an elusive abstract vision in elaborate and painstaking construction, sentence by sentence, word by word. The daunting task for the writer is: what to include? what to exclude? Through our lifetimes a Sargasso Sea of the discarded accumulates, far larger than what is called our “body” of work, for each story is an opening into the infinite, abruptly terminated and sealed in language.”

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Published: 05/29/2007
Publisher: Ecco Press
ISBN: 9780060501204
Pages: 688
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 1.70″ H x 8.00″ L x 5.40″ W

About the Author
Oates, Joyce Carol: –

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.