In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates
offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection
of fifty-nine tales that combines classic works with many
`unexpected gems', and that invites readers to explore a wealth
of important pieces by women and minority writers. Some selections
simply can't be improved upon, Oates admits, and she happily
includes such time-honoured works as Irving's `Rip Van
Winkle', Poe's `The Tell-Tale Heart' and
Hemingway's `A Clean, Well-Lighted Place'. Alongside these
classics, Oates introduces such little-known stories as Mark
Twain's `Cannibalism in the Cars' a story that reveals a
darker side to his humour. From Melville come the juxtaposed tales,
`The Paradise of Bachelors' and the `Tartarus of Maids'
of
which Oates says, `Only Melville could have fashioned out of
`real' events ... such harrowing and dreamlike allegorical
fiction.' From Flannery O'Connor we find `A Late Encounter
with the Enemy', and from John Cheever, `The Death of
Justina', one of Cheever's own favourites.
The reader will also delight in the range of authors found here,
from Charles W. Chesnutt, to William Carlos Williams. Contemporary
artists abound, including Bharati Mukherjee and Amy Tan, Alice
Adams and David Leavitt, Bobbie Ann Mason and Tim O'Brien,
Louise Erdich and John Edgar Wideman. Oates provides fascinating
introductions to each writer, blending biographical information
with her own trenchant observation about their work, plus a long
introductory essay, in which she offers the fruits
of years of reflection on a genre in which she herself is a master.
Only a novelist would ever think up such a project. Only a very good one could pull it off. Observer
Only a novelist would ever think up such a project. Only a very good one could pull it off. Observer
Joyce C. Oates, geb. 1938 in Lockport (NY), zählt zu den bedeutendsten amerikanischen Autorinnen der Gegenwart. Für ihre zahlreichen Romane und Erzählungen wurde sie mehrfach ausgezeichnet, unter anderem mit dem National Book Award. Joyce C. Oates lebt in Princeton, New Jersey, wo sie Literatur unterrichtet. Im Jahr 2012 erhielt sie den Blue Metropolis Literary Grand Prix.
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STORIES INCLUDE 1. Rip Van Winkle 2. The Wives of the Dead 3. The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids 4. The Tell-Tale Heart 5. The Ghost in the Mill 6. Cannibalism in the Cars 7. The Storm 8. The Yellow Wallpaper 9. The Middle Years 10. In a Far Country 11. The Little Regiment 12. A Journey 13. A Death in the Desert 14. A Clean, Well-Lighted Place 15. An Alcoholic Case 16. The Girl with the Pimply Face 17. He 18. Red-Headed Baby 19. A Late Encounter with the Enemy 20. Sonny's Blues 21. There will Come Soft Rains 22. Where is the Voice Coming From 23. The Lecture 24. My Son the Murderer 25. Something to Remember Me By 26. The Death of Justina 27. Texts 28. The Persistence of Desire 29. Are These Actual Miles? 30. Heat
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