Full name: The Assignation: Stories

Author: Joyce Carol Oates Year: 1988 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780880014403 9780880012003 0880014407 0880012005

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. Similar books: Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson Going Away Shoes by Jill McCorkle Hot Pink by Adam Levin Ideas of Heaven by Joan Silber How It Ended by Jay McInerney The Art of Living by John Gardner Werewolves in Their Youth by Michael Chabon The Safety of Objects by A. M. Homes Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston Demonology by Rick Moody Women in their beds by Gina Berriault High Lonesome by Joyce Carol Oates Lust and Other Stories by Susan Minot Ellen Gilchrist: Collected Stories by Ellen Gilchrist Break It Down by Lydia Davis Lovely, Dark, Deep by Joyce Carol Oates Beautiful Days by Joyce Carol Oates First Love by Joyce Carol Oates American Gothic Tales by Joyce Carol Oates The Collector of Hearts by Joyce Carol Oates