Uncensored

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Uncensored: Views and (Re)views
Joyce Carol Oates
A rich collection of essays, reviews, and criticism that calls attention to a wide array of books and writers from Emily Bronte to Mary Karr to Don DeLillo
Uncensored: Views and (Re)views is Joyce Carol Oates's candid gathering of prose, bringing together 38 diverse and provocative pieces. Oates states in her introduction, "In the essay or review, the dynamic of storytelling is hidden but not absent," and indeed, the voice of these "conversations" echoes the voice of her fiction. Such controversial figures as Sylvia Plath, Patricia Highsmith, and Muriel Spark are considered without sentimentality or hyperbole; such diversely talented figures as William Trevor, Michael Connelly, Mary Karr, and Ann Patchett are examined. Oates writes with enthusiasm and clarity about such cultural icons as Emily Bronte, Ernest Hemingway, Balthus, and Muhammad Ali ("The Greatest"), and she considers the nostalgic significance of a pilgrimage to... Tovább

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Uncensored: Views and (Re)views
Joyce Carol Oates
A rich collection of essays, reviews, and criticism that calls attention to a wide array of books and writers from Emily Bronte to Mary Karr to Don DeLillo
Uncensored: Views and (Re)views is Joyce Carol Oates's candid gathering of prose, bringing together 38 diverse and provocative pieces. Oates states in her introduction, "In the essay or review, the dynamic of storytelling is hidden but not absent," and indeed, the voice of these "conversations" echoes the voice of her fiction. Such controversial figures as Sylvia Plath, Patricia Highsmith, and Muriel Spark are considered without sentimentality or hyperbole; such diversely talented figures as William Trevor, Michael Connelly, Mary Karr, and Ann Patchett are examined. Oates writes with enthusiasm and clarity about such cultural icons as Emily Bronte, Ernest Hemingway, Balthus, and Muhammad Ali ("The Greatest"), and she considers the nostalgic significance of a pilgrimage to Thoreau's Walden Pond.
Through these balanced and illuminating essays we see Oates at the top of her form, engaged with forebears and contemporaries, providing clues to her own creative process.
• Ecco will publish I Am No One You Know (0-06-059289-3) in trade paperback April 2005.
Joyce Carol Oates has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award. Vissza