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My Sister, My Love by Joyce Carol Oates

by Ryan Michael Williams

[30.Sep.08] :. A strange hybrid of cultural parody and psychological realism, in which Oates’s broadly drawn characters gradually take on realistic emotional complexity.

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Time for Joyce Carol Oates to take a break

by Chauncey Mabe [South Florida Sun-Sentinel (MCT)]

[31.Oct.07] :. The author of Ecclesiastes was a very wise man, and never more so than when he intoned: “And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a...

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The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates

by Samuel Carlisle

[25.Oct.04] :. The close-knit family psycho-drama that the author intends simply loses its purpose as its scope is blown out of proportion to match the massive scenery of Niagara Falls.

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