{"product_id":"lovely-dark-deep-stories-9780062356956","title":"Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories that maps the eerie darkness within us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInsightful, disturbing, imaginative, and breathtaking in their lyrical precision, the stories in \u003cem\u003eLovely, Dark, Deep\u003c\/em\u003e display Joyce Carol Oates's magnificent ability to make visceral the terror, hurt, and uncertainty that lurks at the edges of ordinary lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \"Mastiff,\" a woman and a man are joined in an erotic bond forged out of terror and gratitude. \"Sex with Camel\" explores how a sixteen-year-old boy realizes the depth of his love for his grandmother--and how vulnerable those feelings make him. Fearful that that her husband is \"disappearing\" from their life, a woman becomes obsessed with keeping him in her sight in \"The Disappearing.\" \"A Book of Martyrs\" reveals how the end of a pregnancy brings with it the end of a relationship. And in the title story, the elderly Robert Frost is visited by an interviewer, an unsettling young woman, who seems to know a good deal more about his life than she should.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA piercing and evocative collection, \u003cem\u003eLovely, Dark, Deep\u003c\/em\u003e reveals an artist at the height of her creative power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joyce Carol Oates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/12\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062356956\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOates, Joyce Carol:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers \u003cem\u003eWe Were the Mulvaneys\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eBlonde\u003c\/em\u003e, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller \u003cem\u003eThe Falls\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Joyce Carol Oates \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47598581317789,"sku":"9780062356956","price":36.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_07ae2216-c42e-45b2-b529-ebc1788ac70f.jpg?v=1769516390","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/lovely-dark-deep-stories-9780062356956","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}