Beautiful Days - by Joyce Carol Oates (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien"</strong></p><p>The diverse stories of <em>Beautiful Days, </em> Joyce Carol Oates explore the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves, who assert their independence in acts of bold and often irrevocable defiance. </p><p>"Fleuve Bleu" exemplifies the rich sensuousness of Oates's prose as lovers married to other persons vow to establish, in their intimacy, a ruthlessly honest, truth-telling authenticity missing elsewhere in their complicated lives, with unexpected results. </p><p>In "Big Burnt," set on lushly rendered Lake George, in the Adirondacks, a cunningly manipulative university professor exploits a too-trusting woman in a way she could never have anticipated. In a more experimental but no less intimate mode, "Les beaux jours" examines the ambiguities of an intensely erotic, exploitative relationship between a "master" artist and his adoring young female model. And the tragic "Undocumented Alien" depicts a young African student enrolled in an American university who is suddenly stripped of his student visa and forced to undergo a terrifying test of courage.</p><p>In these stories, as elsewhere in her fiction, Joyce Carol Oates exhibits her fascination with the social, psychological, and moral boundaries that govern our behavior--until the hour when they do not.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p><strong>A new collection of eleven mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien"</strong></p><p>In the diverse stories of <em>Beautiful Days</em>, Joyce Carol Oates explores the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves, who assert their independence in acts of bold and often irrevocable defiance.</p><p>"Fleuve Bleu" exemplifies the rich sensuousness of Oates's prose as lovers married to other persons vow to establish, in their intimacy, a ruthlessly honest, truth-telling authenticity missing elsewhere in their complicated lives, with unexpected results. And the tragic "Undocumented Alien" depicts a young African student enrolled in an American university who is suddenly stripped of his student visa and forced to undergo a terrifying test of courage.</p><p>In these stories, as elsewhere in her fiction, Joyce Carol Oates exhibits her fascination with the social, psychological, and moral boundaries that govern our behavior--until the hour when they do not.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Perceptive, unmissable work."--<em>Library Journal </em>(starred review)<br><br>"A very strong collection. . . . Oates is a master of many different kinds of story."<br/>--<em>New York Times Book Review</em><br><br>"In<em> Beautiful Days</em>, the prolific author once again delivers a selection of skillfully written stories as powerful as any she has produced in her long and distinguished career."--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<br>
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