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The Assignation: Stories Paperback - 1996

by Joyce Carol Oates

In this sexy, racy collection of short prose takes by a master of the form, Joyce Carol Oates makes her own appointment with character and event--a sort of extended sequential reverie that surprises and sometimes shocks, but always satisfies.


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A woman's lover seems not to recognize her on the street. A teenage girl accepts a ride from a stranger in a rust-speckled Cadillac. An old man is obsessed by the memory of his innocent childhood intrusion on a half-dressed aunt.

In forty-four very short, very powerful stories, Joyce Carol Oates fashions brief, intensely compact dramas out of the unwieldy material of human experience. The stories in The Assignation are infused with a "radiant intensity," wrote James Atlas in the New York Times Book Review, and they convey the depth and scope of a novel in a few charged pages. The Assignation is an electric display of the talents that make Joyce Carol Oates one of our finest short story writers.

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They are sitting at opposite ends of the old horsehair sofa waiting for something to happen.

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  • Title The Assignation: Stories
  • Author Joyce Carol Oates
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Ecco Pbk. Ed
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher PerfectBound, NEW YORK
  • Date 1996-08-01
  • ISBN 9780880014403 / 0880014407
  • Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.54 x 0.52 in (21.59 x 14.07 x 1.32 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00000000
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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