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Lovely, Dark, Deep (2014)

by Joyce Carol Oates(Favorite Author)

2.19 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0062356941 (ISBN13: 9780062356949)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Ecco

review 1: Don't expect to feel good at the end of any of these short stories and novella. You won't. They are tragic, emotional, and realistic examples of life and suffering. That's what makes them so frightening because you can see yourself (or a family member/friend) living through the subject matter of each story. Even the one about Robert Frost is no exception, since you could substitute any licentious older and powerful male into the story in place of the Frost character and relate to it. Wonderful writing and imagery.
review 2: The latest release from our most prolific writer is a collection of short stories. I didn't find much "lovely" in Joyce Carol Oates' Lovely, Dark, Deep, but there's certainly a lot of dark and deep phenomena. Since this is a long collection ... moreof stories, a synopsis is impossible. Most of the tales concern upper-middle class angst, and in particular the university setting is explored. Though JCO grew up in a working class family in western New York, she moved into academia and has been at Princeton for years. She likes to write about devious college administrators and professors. Scientists are also featured. The story from which the title is taken is about Robert Frost, and it left me laughing. I don't want to give away why. The last work, Patricide, is long enough to qualify as a novella, or at least it seemed so. I didn't count the pages. It's about an arrogant famous novelist fond of using and abusing women. less

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