I Lock My Door Upon Myself (1990) by Joyce Carol Oates 98 pages Plume ===== This novella tells the story, through the eyes of her granddaughter, of a woman of the early 20th century who didn’t fit into the rural upstate New York world she was born into. Edith, or “Calla” as she likes to [...]
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I Lock My Door Upon Myself
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged joyce carol oates, usa on April 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Expensive People
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged joyce carol oates, usa on February 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Expensive People (1968) by Joyce Carol Oates 256 pages Fawcett Crest ===== This is a novel that looks forward to an event for almost its whole length, and then when it finally happens in the last few pages…you end up not being sure that it happened at all. The novel is narrated by Richard Everett, [...]
For Sale: 1 house, haunted in some way I’m sure
Posted in Literary News & Views, tagged joyce carol oates on February 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m currently reading Joyce Carol Oates’ Expensive People (review up in a day or two), and as I was just doing some browsing about her online, I found out that not only had she re-married after her husband’s death in 2008, but she’s selling her long-time home. After reading her descriptions of her writing habits [...]
