High lonesome

By Joyce Carol Oates

Subjects: Fiction, United states, social life and customs, fiction, Social life and customs, Fiction, short stories (single author), Literature

Description: No other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates. High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 gathers short fiction from the acclaimed author's seminal collections and includes eleven new tales that further demonstrate the breathtaking artistry and striking originality of an incomparable talent who "has imbued the American short story with an edgy vitality and raw social surfaces" (Chicago Tribune).