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Search - Faithless: Tales of Transgression
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Faithless Tales of Transgression Author: In this collection of twenty-one unforgettable stories, Joyce Carol Oates explores the mysterious private lives of men and women with vivid, unsparing precision and sympathy. By turns interlocutor and interpreter, magician and realist, she dissects the psyches of ordinary people and their potential for good and evil with chilling understatement ... more »
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3 member(s) found this review helpful.
There's no doubt Joyce Carol Oates is an amazing author, and while I'm usually a fan of her works, I found this book hard to commit to and put it down after the first few stories. It might very well be that I'm simply not a fan of short stories - I'd rather read a long sprawling Oates work - in general. The writing is elegant and the stories are well-constructed as you'd expect from Oates, but beware that this book contains 21 short stories rather than an in-depth full-feature work.
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Love this book. Each story unique, each written from perspectives of very different characters.
Genres:
- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Contemporary
- Literature & Fiction >> Short Stories >> Single Author
- Literature & Fiction >> Authors, A-Z >> ( O ) >> Oates, Joyce Carol