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As of last Monday my residence is 118 North Church Street, Mt. Vernon. University Heights the area is called. Close by the big State University campus where Professor P__ teaches. (But Mom & Dad live in the suburb of Dale Springs, on the other side of town.) Merissa is the envy of all her similarly privileged peers, yet she also lost her friend Tink six months ago to suicide. While good things fall into place for Merissa (getting into a great college Continue reading »

Zombie - Joyce Carol Oates - Google Books

Each of the six performers chosen to narrate Oates’s collection of dark character studies suits the atmosphere of malaise and despair that emerges from the author’s odd, elegant prose. Ray Chase Continue reading » and so forth), featuring crude and often pointless line drawings, "Zombie" is Joyce Carol Oates's effort to dramatize, in diarylike form, the psychotic, monstrous consciousness of a serial murderer. This creature is simultaneously a b c d e f Reese, Jennifer (July 13, 2007). "Joyce Carol Oates gets personal". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on January 2, 2013. A bizarre medical condition%E2%80%94anterograde amnesia%E2%80%94is the linchpin holding together Oates's latest novel, a profound and moving meditation on how memory shapes our personalities and, by Continue reading »Stalker with a Crush: Quentin becomes infatuated with a teenage busboy. He stalks him, learns his routine and plans his kidnap over the course of several weeks. Smith died of complications from pneumonia on February 18, 2008, and the death affected Oates profoundly. [34] In April 2008, Oates wrote to an interviewer, "Since my husband's unexpected death, I really have very little energy [...] My marriage–my love for my husband–seems to have come first in my life, rather than my writing. Set beside his death, the future of my writing scarcely interests me at the moment." [89] [90] Oates writes in longhand, [52] working from "8 till 1 every day, then again for two or three hours in the evening." [29] Her prolificacy has become one of her best-known attributes, although often discussed disparagingly. [29] The New York Times wrote in 1989 that Oates's "name is synonymous with productivity." [53] Martyn Bedford wrote in Literary Review that "perhaps she is a victim of her own productivity." [54] In 2004, The Guardian noted that, "Nearly every review of an Oates book, it seems, begins with a list [of her publication totals]". [5] HOWLers mentioned Oates’s experimental style as a high point. Written in the form of a journal, the novel breaks with literary convention in a number of places. Quentin’s fragmented voice could best be described as a collection of parts—parts of sentences, parts of events, and parts of the truth—broken up by screaming capital letters and crude marker drawings. One user called it “a masterclass in voice, style, and the unreliable narrator,” and another noted that “reading this gave me some ideas for my own writing. Made me think of new ways to tease the boundaries.”

Zombie: A Novel - Joyce Carol Oates - Google Books

The book Zombie is told through the perspective of Quentin P, a newly paroled sex offender who progresses to becoming a serial killer.The new short story collection from the prolific Oates (after the novel Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You) contains sinister and charged moments tempered by humor and masterful storytelling. Continue reading » Many of the details of "Zombie" owe much to the story of Jeffrey Dahmer, who committed a large number of homosexual murders in Milwaukee. Dahmer dismembered the bodies of his victims, saved some of their body parts and other grisly souvenirs, Believable, full-blooded characters propel Oates's first YA novel past some plotting that doesn't quite add up. Ursula Riggs, a high school junior, has adopted a stance of invincible Continue reading » A suspenseful, professional-grade north country procedural whose heroine, a deft mix of compassion and attitude, would be welcome to return and tie up the gaping loose end Box leaves. The unrelenting cold makes this the perfect beach read.

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Oates was raised Catholic, but as of 2007 she identified as an atheist. [42] In an interview with Commonweal magazine, Oates stated: "I think of religion as a kind of psychological manifestation of deep powers, deep imaginative, mysterious powers which are always with us." [43] Politics [ edit ] Death of Personality: Quentin experiments with altering his victims brains to render them entirely obedient and compliant. He describes his ideal zombie as having "dead eyes with nothing behind them". As CARETAKER of this property I live on the ground floor rear in the room provided for the CARETAKER. This is a room with its own bathroom, a shower stall & toilet. There have been previous CARETAKERS working for Dad but I don’t know anything about them. These institutions define the language that may be used and the reasons which are admissible in argument. The likelihood of revolution is proportional to the seriousness of the reasons excluded as invalid. Expanding the base of valid reasons in institutional argumentation has been the real achievement of liberal democracy. Anyone who seeks to reduce the reasons available for institutionalised argument (which is the equivalent of restricting democratic participation) is a psychopath. Another big novel from the prolific Oates, this tale of a successful middle-aged real estate developer whose hidden past surges up to wreak havoc on his present was one of PW's best books for 1994 Continue reading »In 44 short narratives, ``Oates has captured precisely an essential presence and instant in the lives of her characters,'' commented PW. `` Logical as daydreams, with endings similarly as interrupted Continue reading »