American Appetites, Joyce Carol Oates
American Appetites, Joyce Carol Oates
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American Appetites

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Barbara Caruso

Unabridged: 14 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/29/2010

Synopsis

Joyce Carol Oates has been hailed as America's foremost woman of letters. She is at her best in American Appetites, weaving a masterful tale of personal entanglements, fatal decisions, and courtroom drama. Ian and Glynnis McCullough, intelligent, professional and successful, are the envy of their affluent friends. But suddenly, an unexpected plea for help and a cancelled check send their tranquility spinning out of control.

About Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is the author of such national bestsellers as The Falls, Blonde, and We Were the Mulvaneys. Her other titles include Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense, which features "The Woman in the Window," selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2017; The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, which won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection; and Jack of Spades. She is the recipient of the National Book Award for Them and the 2010 President's National Humanities Medal.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melinda

Well written, yes. Irritating, yes. A waste of my reading time, probably. I get the point, but I just didn't give a rip about the main characters, especially Ian. Supposedly such an intellectual, but what a bumbling idiot of a man. Indecisive, unwilling to own up to his own actions, oblivious to how......more

Goodreads review by Tina

I am often in my judgement of a book swayed by its cover. Publishers seem to think covers are essential for impulse buying to catch the eye, but these days I buy mostly online and am always baffled by the numerous editions and different cover illustrations. However, with this particular book I loved......more

Goodreads review by Raine

I really like Joyce Carol Oates' books and how the characters are so wonderfully studied. AMERICAN APPETITES is no exception. These characters are all upper class 1980's types, who live in upstate New York, and participate in liberal type careers like social demographics and college professors. Of c......more

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