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Bibliography Information:
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Collection:
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Adult Fiction |
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Call Number:
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F Oates |
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Author:
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Oates, Joyce Carol |
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Title:
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Beautiful days |
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Remainder of title:
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stories |
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Summary, etc. note:
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"A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien"</strong> The diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explore the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves, who assert their independence in acts of bold and often irrevocable defiance. "Fleuve Bleu" exemplifies the rich sensuousness of Oates's prose as lovers married to other persons vow to establish, in their intimacy, a ruthlessly honest, truth-telling authenticity missing elsewhere in their complicated lives, with unexpected results. In "Big Burnt," set on lushly rendered Lake George, in the Adirondacks, a cunningly manipulative university professor exploits a too-trusting woman in a way she could never have anticipated. "The Nice Girl" depicts a young woman who has been, through her life, infuriatingly "nice," until she is forced to come to terms with the raw desperation of her deepest self. In a more experimental but no less intimate mode, "Les beaux jours" examines the ambiguities of an intensely erotic, exploitative relationship between a "master" artist and his adoring young female model. And the tragic "Undocumented Alien" depicts a young African student enrolled in an American university who is suddenly stripped of his student visa and forced to undergo a terrifying test of courage. In these stories, as elsewhere in her fiction, Joyce Carol Oates exhibits her fascination with the social, psychological, and moral boundaries that govern our behavior--until the hour when they do not"-- |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9780062795786 (hardback) |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9780062795793 |
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Canceled/invalid ISBN:
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9780062795809 (ebook) |
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Description conventions:
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rda |
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Authentication code:
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pcc |
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Classification number:
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PS3565.A8 |
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Item number:
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A6 2018 |
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Edition number:
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23 |
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Classification number:
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813/.54 |
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Source of number:
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bisacsh |
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Classification number:
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FIC029000 |
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Classification number:
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FIC019000 |
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Classification number:
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FIC025000 |
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Dates associated with a name:
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1938- |
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Relator term:
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author. |
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Uniform title:
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Short stories. |
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Form subheading:
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Selections |
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Statement of responsibility, etc.:
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Joyce Carol Oates. |
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Edition statement:
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First |
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Place of publication:
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New York, NY |
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Name of publisher:
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HarperCollinsPublishers |
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Date of publication:
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2018 |
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Projected publication date:
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1802 |
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New York : |
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Ecco, |
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2018. |
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Extent:
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334 pages;24 cm |
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rdacontent |
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text |
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txt |
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rdamedia |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdacarrier |
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volume |
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nc |
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Summary, etc. note:
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"A new collection of stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, mysterious and surreal, and perfectly pitched for the confusion of the current political landscape"-- |
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Provided by publisher. |
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Provided by publisher. |
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Source of acquisition:
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B & T 02/16/2018 |
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Purchase price:
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$ 26.99 |
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Source of heading or term:
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bisacsh |
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Source of heading or term:
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bisacsh |
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Source of heading or term:
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bisacsh |
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Subject:
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FICTION / Short Stories (single author) |
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Subject:
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FICTION / Literary |
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Subject:
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FICTION / Psychological |
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acquire |
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1 shelf copy |
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policy default |
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xk07 2017-08-29 |
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xk07 2017-08-29 ONIX (telework) to CIP |
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Bridget Read; phone: 212-2077604; email: bridget.read@harpercollins.com; bc: emma.dries@harpercollins.com |
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F Oates |
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