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The assignation / stories by Joyce Carol Oates.
LIBRA - Special PS3565.A8 A885 1988b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- Short stories.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 198 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Uncorrected page proof.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ecco Press, [1988]
- Summary:
- In this sexy, racy collection of short prose takes by a master of the form, Joyce Carol Oates makes her own appointment with character and event--a sort of extended sequential reverie that surprises and sometimes shocks, but always satisfies.
- Contents:
- One flesh
- Slow
- The boy
- Sharpshooting
- Tick
- Photographer's model
- Accident
- Mule
- A touch of the flu
- Holiday
- Eleuthéria
- The abduction
- In traction
- Romance
- Only son
- Bad habits
- Anecdote
- The quarrel
- Pinch
- Secret
- Ace
- Heartland
- Maximum security
- The assignation
- Fin de siècle
- The bystander
- Shelter
- Party
- Stroke
- Adultress
- Superstitious
- A sentimental encounter
- Señorita
- Face
- August evening
- Picnic
- Visitation rights
- Two doors
- Desire
- Train
- The others
- Blue-bearded lover
- Secret observations on the goat-girl
- The stadium.
- Notes:
- A collection of short stories, most of which have never been previously published.
- OCLC:
- 927345722
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