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Night, neon : tales of mystery and suspense / Joyce Carol Oates.
"From literary icon, Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand new collection of haunting, and at times, darkly humorous mystery and suspense stories. These are 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 member of the Manson Family explaining what led to her terrible crimes."-- From the publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781613162309
- ISBN: 1613162308
- Physical Description: 299 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : The Mysterious Press, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Subject: | Short stories, American. |
| Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. Thrillers (Fiction) Thrillers (Fiction) Psychological fiction. Short stories. |
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- 25 of 26 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 3 of 3 copies available at Scenic Regional.
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- 0 current holds with 26 total copies.
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| Scenic Regional-Hermann | FIC OAT (Text) | 3007374596 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Scenic Regional-Union | FIC OAT (Text) | 300737460+ | Fiction | Available | - |
| Scenic Regional-Wright City | FIC OAT (Text) | 300737457+ | Fiction | Available | - |
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Night, Neon : Tales of Mystery and Suspense
From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery & suspense stories. These are 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 1940s magazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's ideals of beauty and womanhood. Taken as a whole, the collection forms a poignant tapestry of regular people searching for their place in a social hierarchy, often with devastating and disastrous results. Rendered with stylish, fresh writing from an author who continues to push the envelope, the stories deftly weave in and out of a stream-of-consciousness to reflect the ways we process traumatic experiences and impart that uncertainty and uneasiness to the reader. Originally appearing in publications as disparate as Harper's, Vice, and Conjunctions, the stories comprising Night, Neon showcase Oates' mastery of the suspense story--and her relentless use of the form to conduct unapologetically honest explorations of American identity.
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