Night. Sleep. Death. the Stars. Contributor(s): Oates, Joyce Carol (Author) |
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ISBN: 0062797581 ISBN-13: 9780062797582 Publisher: Ecco Press OUR PRICE: $31.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Psychological |
Dewey: 813.54 |
Physical Information: 2.1" H x 6.4" W x 9.1" (2.10 lbs) 800 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Family |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society by one of our most enduringly popular and important writers
Stark and penetrating, Joyce Carol Oates's latest novel is a vivid exploration of race, psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing, as well as an intimate family novel in the tradition of the author's bestselling We Were the Mulvaneys. |
Contributor Bio(s): 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 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, 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. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. 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. |