The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973-1982
- Synopsis
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One wonders how Oates got the time to write, considering the sheer heft of her journals, but then one comes to the realization that the journals are the bones without flesh, or the flesh without bones, or some knot of both that became the root of her prolific output. Entries concern family, colleagues, and friends but never descend to pure gossip, largely due to editing that protects the dignity of the living. The effect of this necessary surgery is not to leave blanks in Oates's history but to reveal a self-imposed discipline bordering on the perturbing. Yet Oates does not combine this discipline with distance and instead establishes and maintains her life's project, an "experiment in consciousness." Oates hones her writing and her art page by page, tempting the reader to establish the discipline of reading with the journal in one hand and the relevant novel in the other. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Copyright:
- 2007
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 515 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780061227981
- Publisher:
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Date of Addition:
- 05/12/09
- Copyrighted By:
- Ontario Review, Inc.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
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English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
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Nonfiction,
Biographies and Memoirs,
Literature and Fiction,
Language Arts
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- Usage Restrictions:
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