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1	The Gravedigger's Daughter more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates add to wishlist In this "New York Times" bestseller, Oates has created a masterpiece of domestic yet mythic realism, at once emotionally engaging and intellectually provocative: an intimately observed testimony to the resilience of the individual. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.91! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Blonde more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates add to wishlist This fictionalized biography of Marilyn Monroe begins with her adolescent troubles in foster homes after her mother is institutionalized and ends--after she has been disappointed by a series of hopeless men--with her squalid death at 36. In an interview in Publishers Weekly, Joyce Carol Oates says she saw in Monroe "girls of my own background....I ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.04! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Best American Essays of the Century more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates (Editor) add to wishlist Joyce Carol Oates chooses 55, chronologically arranged essays to represent the century's best, including work by Mark Twain, James Baldwin, T. S. Eliot, Susan Sontag, and Mary McCarthy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.90! \| first editions \| SVS
4	We Were the Mulvaneys more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates add to wishlist In upstate New York, the Mulvaneys are a wealthy and magnetic family--attractive, charismatic, promising. But after 25 years, the family begins to slide, then fragment, then shatter, and soon there is nothing left of the dynasty. Judd, the youngest of the clan, begins to search for the reasons behind the downfall, and as he uncovers family secrets ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	American Gothic Tales more books like this by Various, Joyce Carol Oates (Editor) add to wishlist Featuring contributions by Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Stephen King, Anne Rice, and many others, this definitive collection of chilling American fiction includes more than 40 of the best examples of the genre. see all copies from $7.38! new only from $9.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Big Mouth & Ugly Girl more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates add to wishlist Matt Donaghy has always had a big mouth, but it has never gotten him in trouble until the day he is accused of threatening to blow up Rocky River High High School. Ursula Riggs--a.k.a. Ugly Girl--is the only one who knows what Matt said that day, and she is the only one who can help him. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.91! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Oxford Book of American Short Stories more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of 56 stories, edited by Joyce Carol Oates, features lesser-known short fiction by O'Connor, Cheever, Washington Irving, Zora Neale Hurston, Hemingway, Poe, Kate Chopin, Amy Tan, and Louise Erdrich, among others. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates add to wishlist "New York Times"-bestselling author Oates is back with this dark, wry, captivating tale, inspired by an unsolved true-crime mystery. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction more books like this by R Cassill add to wishlist With 45 stories, 23 new to this second edition, the popular NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY FICTION provides an abundant selection of fiction from 1960 to the present. Readers will appreciate newly included stories from their favorite authors, as well as the addition of sixteen new writers. Biographical notes on all the writers provide a valuable ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $40.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Middle Age: A Romance more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates add to wishlist When Adam Berendt dies suddenly, the women in his upstate New York town--many of whom adored him--are devastated. One of them, Augusta Cutler, delves into his past life, and finds that he is not what they had all thought. This is Joyce Carol Oates's 29th novel. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Black Water more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates add to wishlist A senator from Massachusetts, who goes unnamed throughout the novel, meets Kelly Kelleher, a young writer from Boston, at a July 4th party in Maine. They leave the party to go to dinner and a motel, but on the way the drunken senator takes the wrong road. When they finally reach the ferry, which is departing as they approach the dock, the senator ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Falls more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates add to wishlist Niagara Falls in the 1950s is the setting for Joyce Carol Oates's novel. It begins with a shocking event: the suicide of a man married for less than a day, who leaps into the falls and is swept away by the rushing torrent. As his grieving widow, Ariah Littrell, keeps a vigil during the search for his body, she encounters a wealthy local man who, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	You Must Remember This more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates add to wishlist Oates writes about an American family in the 1950s in an ordinary working-class town in upstate New York. Lyle and Hannah are trapped in an unfulfilling marriage, their son Warren is an idealistic misfit, and their daughter Enid Maria enters into an obsessive liaison with her uncle, a professional boxer. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.89! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates add to wishlist In a working-class town in upstate New York in the 1950s, five girls form a gang. One of its members, Legs Sadovsky, is their leader, and years later Maddy-Monkey Wirtz tells their story. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Wild Nights!: Stories about the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates add to wishlist Through the words of his own 'diary', we watch as Poe succumbs to existential loneliness during a sociological experiment in an isolated lighthouse, stranded for a year with no companion but his faithful dog...Dickinson is brought back to life in an imagined future era, when a husband and wife buy her as a servant-robot/clone, eager for her to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.57! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Freaky Green Eyes more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates add to wishlist Franky Pierson was almost raped shortly after she turned 14. In order to help herself deal with the trauma, she created an alter ego known as "Freaky Green Eyes," a quick-thinking persona whose strength she believes helped her escape from her attacker. This persona also helps her deal with her parents' separation and her subsequent decision to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	I'll Take You There more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates add to wishlist Joyce Carol Oates's 30th novel, which takes place in the early 1960s, is about a young woman (nameless, though she has given herself the name "Anellia") who grew up on a farm and wins a scholarship to an upstate New York college. In the course of trying to understand the effect on her of her highly dysfunctional family, which includes an absent ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	What I Lived for more books like this by J Oates add to wishlist Jerome "Corky" Corcoran is, by all measures, a successful man. But his voracious appetites sink him into debt and sour relationships. His ambitions shattered by violence, he is inexorably drawn into blackmail, corruption, and greed. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.59! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates (Editor) add to wishlist Using the reading list for her writing seminar at Princeton University, Joyce Carol Oates presents over 90 works of narrative art. Here are classics and relative unknowns, short vignettes and long genre fiction, tragic tales and humorous character sketches. Oates chose pieces that will inspire beginning and experienced writers alike. In special ... see all copies from $17.93! new only from $44.50! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates (Selected by), Christopher R Beha (Selected by) add to wishlist Edited by Oates, the living master of the short story ("Buffalo News"), this handsome volume provides an important overview of the contemporary short story and a selection of the very best that American fiction has to offer. see all copies from $7.41! new only from $9.50! \| SVS
21 view cover	Essential Dickinson more books like this by Emily Dickinson, Joyce Carol Oates (Selected by) add to wishlist Joyce Carol Oates's personal favorites among Emily Dickinson's poems, including both the much-anthologized and the more obscure. In her introduction, Oates states, "Dickinson is one of very few poets whose work repays countless readings, through a lifetime." see all copies from $3.04! new only from $6.14! \| SVS
22 view cover	My heart laid bare more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates add to wishlist Joyce Carol Oates's novel is a panoramic saga beginning in the 17th century and coming to its dramatic conclusion in the late 1990s. Oates details the fortunes and sorrows of the Licht family of New York State, and the ways in which the fruits of a crime can continue to blossom even after the passage of centuries. A "New York Times" Notable Book ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Zombie: 9 more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates add to wishlist This unflinching, unforgettable fictional exploration into the life and mind of a paroled sex offender provides a psychologically astute portrait of the way cold calculation and dark obsession combine to make a serial killer both horrifyingly successful and maddeningly elusive. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.47! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates add to wishlist Collected from her writings over nearly 30 years, these essays by Joyce Carol Oates describe the creative process as she sees it, both in her own work and in that of others. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Black Girl/White Girl more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates add to wishlist This painfully intimate depiction of race in America is a double portrait of "black" and "white" in America in the years of crisis following the end of the Vietnam War. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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