Novels: Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart, them, A Garden of Earthly Delights
(If your gal likes creepy stuff: Zombie, The Tattooed Girl, Rape:A Love Story)
Short Stories: The Wheel Of Love, Upon The Sweeping Flood
(Again for the horror lover: Faithless:Tales Of Transgression, The Collector of Hearts:New Tales of the Grotesque, Haunted:Tales of the Grotesque)
Poetry: The Time Traveler, Invisible Woman (Collected poetry)
Non-fiction: On Boxing, Where I've Been, And Where I'm Going (Collected essays, reviews, etc)
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 3 May 2004 13:24 (twenty years ago) link
JCO is one of my must-reads. I love her upstate NY stories and also her magnifying glass on women, young and old. I always say about her: someone is going to start up HERE and end up down HERE. That's a tragedy, right? She has it down.
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― Becky Willis, Tuesday, 4 May 2004 23:06 (twenty years ago) link
I loved Blonde and The Wheel of Love, couldn't get into Broke Heart Blues at all, and felt kinda neutral about one whose name I have completely forgotten. But she's great, obviously. (
Skidmore on Oates)
― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 00:39 (twenty years ago) link
two years pass...
Would
Wonderland be an okay place to start? It looks like it's going to be re-issued tomorrow by Modern Library (along with
Them and
Expensive People). The Amazon page has the Library Journal calling it "the greatest of Oates's novels." Her bibliography is so long it's frightening.
― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link
seventeen years pass...
Not very important, but I notice that Joyce Carol Oates published her first book 60 years ago this year.
― alimosina, Sunday, 31 December 2023 02:44 (five months ago) link