Bibliograph

Night, neon, tales of mystery and suspense, Joyce Carol Oates

Type

Label

Night, neon, tales of mystery and suspense, Joyce Carol Oates

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Night, neon

Responsibility statement

Joyce Carol Oates

Sub title

tales of mystery and suspense

Summary

These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life - from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s magazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's ideals of beauty and womanhood. Taken as a whole, the collection forms a poignant tapestry of regular people searching for their place in a social hierarchy, often with devastating and disastrous results. Rendered with stylish, fresh writing from an author who continues to push the envelope, the stories deftly weave in and out of a stream-of-consciousness to reflect the ways we process traumatic experiences and impart that uncertainty and uneasiness to the reader

Table Of Contents

Detour -- Curious -- Miss Golden Dreams 1949 -- Wanting -- Parole hearing, California Institution for Women, Chino, CA -- Intimacy -- The flagellant -- Vaping: a user's manual -- Night, neon

Target audience

adult

Creator