| Edition |
First Mysterious Press edition. |
| Description |
299 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Detour -- Curious -- Miss Golden Dreams 1949 -- Wanting -- Parole hearing, California Institution for Women, Chino, CA -- Intimacy -- The Flagellant -- Vaping: a user's manual -- Night, neon. |
| Summary |
Presents nine tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life--from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940's magazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's ideals of beauty and womanhood. |
| Subject(S) |
Stress (Psychology) -- Fiction.
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Life change events -- Fiction.
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Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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Psychological fiction.
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Detective and mystery fiction.
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Short stories.
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| Added Name(S) |
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Detour.
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Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Curious.
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Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Miss Golden Dreams 1949.
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Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Wanting.
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Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Parole hearing, California Institution for Women, Chino, CA.
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Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Intimacy.
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Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Flagellant.
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Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Vaping: a user's manual.
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Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Night, Neon.
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| ISBN |
9781613162309 (hardcover) |
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1613162308 (hardcover) |
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