Night, Neon Av Oates Joyce Carol Oates

<b>From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates, author of <i>Blonde</i>, now a major motion picture, comes a brand new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery and suspense stories.</b> These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life from a woman who gets lost on her drive back 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. The stories comp

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