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From the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, comes a collection of ten mesmerizing stories that maps the eerie darkness within us all. A piercing and evocative collection, Lovely, Dark, Deep reveals an artist at the height of her creative power.Insightful, disturbing, imaginative, and breathtaking in their lyrical precision, the stories in Lovely, Dark, Deep display Joyce Carol Oates magnificent ability to make visceral the terror, hurt, and uncertainty that lurk at the edges of ordinary lives.In Mastiff, a woman and a man are joined in an erotic bond forged out of terror and gratitude. Sex with Camel explores how a sixteenyearold boy realizes the depth of his love for his grandmother and how vulnerable those feelings make him.



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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is the author of more than 70 books, including novels, short story collections, poetry volumes, plays, essays, and criticism, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde. Among her many honors are the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and the National Book Award. Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.



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