Joyce Carol Oates

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Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.

Beschreibung

The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society

Night Sleep Death The Stars is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all.

Stark and penetrating, Joyce Carol Oates's latest novel is a vivid exploration of race, psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing, as well as an intimate family novel in the tradition of the author's bestselling We Were the Mulvaneys.

Autor

Joyce Carol Oates is a novelist, critic, playwright, poet and author of short stories and one of America's most respected literary figures. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University and a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fourth Estate / HarperCollins UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 199533
• Seitenzahl: 800
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 129mm x 54mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9780008381110
• ISBN-10: 0008381119
• Artikelnr.: 59986001

Rezensionen

'This family saga is a thoughtful and spellbinding examination of grief, class, race and inequality that penetrates the darker psychological underbelly of contemporary American life, proving Oates to be at the top of her considerable game'
Mail on Sunday

'Oates has become America's preeminent fiction writer ...There is great joy to be derived from the novel's submerged patterns, its mind-boggling fecundity, its gallimaufry of devices (stream of consciousness, analytic omniscience, sentences both snaking and staccato), its combination of intricacy and lucidity' New Yorker

'An immersive, discursive chronicle of a family's reconfiguration following the death of its patriarch ... There is much to relish in Night. Sleep.

Death. The Stars., from its nimble pace to exuberant set pieces. As a portrait of a family and a nation, it's funny and tragic and sometimes bleak'
Observer

'Though style and setting are very different, there are ways in which Oates recalls late Iris Murdoch novels. There is the same utter belief in what she is doing, the same extravagance and the same ability to persuade you to read on ... It holds the attention, rings true and gives pleasure. The subject - how you accommodate to loss - is real and important, and the characters have a credibility that is rare in much fashionable fiction' Scotsman

'John Earle "Whitey" McClaren pulls his car to the side of the expressway outside his hometown of Hammond, New York, when he witnesses police officers using excessive force on a Black man. The cops turn their Tasers and steel-toed boots on Whitey, leaving him writhing on the ground. His death catapults Jessalyn, his wife of more than 40 years, and his five grown children into the heartbreak of grief in all its stages. While Oates purposefully plumbs the depths of each family member's agonizing loss, her perceptive study of Jessalyn's widowhood stands out as an impressive and impassioned portrait of this distressing life journey' Booklist

"Oates is at her best - and make no mistake, her best can be spellbinding and heart-wrenching - when she inhabits Jessalyn." - New York Times Book Review

"There is much to relish in Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars., from its nimble pace to exuberant set pieces." - The Guardian

"Timely, monumental. . . . Yet another piercing examination of American culture by the writer this reviewer considers our country's greatest living novelist. . . . It is brilliant. How blessed we are to have her as a novelist in our chaotic, confusing times. Night is spot on for these times of racial divide, as well as in portraying the fractious family dynamic that many of us know all too well. . . . Night deserves the top spot on your quarantine nightstand. Here's a fervent salute to Oates, our finest American novelist, for this one." - Star Tribune

"This is a significant and admirable entry in the Oates canon." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)