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The Assignation

Stories

By: Joyce Carol Oates

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Paperback | 1 August 1996

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208 Pages

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21.59 x 13.97 x 1.32

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A woman's lover seems not to recognize her on the street. A teenage girl accepts a ride from a stranger in a rust-speckled Cadillac. An old man is obsessed by the memory of his innocent childhood intrusion on a half-dressed aunt.

In forty-four very short, very powerful stories, Joyce Carol Oates fashions brief, intensely compact dramas out of the unwieldy material of human experience. The stories in "The Assignation" are infused with a "radiant intensity," wrote James Atlas in the "New York Times Book Review," and they convey the depth and scope of a novel in a few charged pages. "The Assignation" is an electric display of the talents that make Joyce Carol Oates one of our finest short story writers.

Industry Reviews

"Vintage Oates...Short, sharp shots (many of them aimed at sensuality and love) from the master of moody foreboding."-- "Kirkus Reviews

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