Joyce Carol Oates is the National Book Award-winning author of over fifty novels, including bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, and The Gravedigger's Daughter. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University.
Praise for the first edition:
"Joyce Carol Oates has cast her net further and deeper, drawing
from American literature's impressive past and substantial cultural
wealth.... Exceptional."--Booklist
"More than a survey of writing styles. It is a celebration of the
diversity of American culture."--Denver Post
"Readers who take an encompassing view of American literature and
culture will love this book, which brilliantly captures the range
and heft of the remarkable American contribution to the short story
genre. With penetrating introductions by Joyce Carol Oates to each
writer, this is an anthology of the finest kind, a collection of
stories dazzling in variety but unified by an editor of singular
intelligence and vision."--Arnold Rampersad, Princeton
University
"Joyce Carol Oates, a master fabulist who is also one of our finest
critics, has given us a treasury that represents the astonishing
range of the American short story. But instead of another showcase
of 'greatest hits, ' Oates ventures further afield, to uncover a
series of neglected but refulgent gems. This is a collection with
guts--and brains. Best of all, it's a collection that unfolds, as
its editor promises, the larger story of American writing, in all
its hues and timbres."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard
University
"A splendid volume of short stories which reflect the wealth of
brilliance built up over the years by a wide ranging field of
American writers. Oates has done an outstanding job in making this
selection.... She does not always go for the well known stories by
delights us with some that have remained somewhat
obscure."--Yorkshire Gazette and Herald
"To a short story lover it is hard to think of a book that could
give more pleasure."--Scotland on Sunday
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