Black Dahlia White Rose, Joyce Carol Oates
Black Dahlia White Rose, Joyce Carol Oates
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Black Dahlia & White Rose
Stories

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Paul Michael Garcia, Coleen Marlo, Tavia Gilbert

Unabridged: 8 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/11/2012

Synopsis

“A mesmerizing storyteller who seems almost unnaturally able to enter the tormented inner lives of her characters.”
—Denver PostBlack Dahlia & White Rose is a brilliant collection of short fiction from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.  These stores, at once lyrical and unsettling, shine with the author’s trademark fascination with finding the unpredictable amidst the prosaic—from her imaginative recreation of  friendship between two tragically doomed young women (Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Short), to the tale of an infidelity as deeply human as it is otherworldly. Black Dahlia & White Rose is a major offering from one of the most important artists in contemporary American literature; a superb collection that showcases Joyce Carol Oates’s ferocious energy and darkly imaginative storytelling power.

About Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce 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 We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave on November 24, 2022

I'm not saying that Joyce Carol Oates's Black Dahlia & White Rose was not an intriguing idea. Two of the most iconic women figures of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Short (aka Bettie Ann Short, aka The Black Dahlia) and Norman Jean Baker (aka Marilyn Monroe, associated with white roses, re: her la......more

Goodreads review by Cody | CodysBookshelf on March 18, 2020

A rather uneven collection, unfortunately, but most short stories collections feature at least a couple duds! Like Joyce Carol Oates’ 1991 collection Heat a solid half of Black Dahlia and White Rose is made up of winners, the rest . . . uh, not so much. Here’s my ratings of each story: “Black Dahlia......more

Goodreads review by Stef on August 14, 2017

My first experience with this author and definitely a good one. Lots of variety and most stories do keep you curious and wanting to read on. The story selected as one of the best American short stories of 2011, I.D. is absolutely brilliant. As in the first, title, story Oates succeeds in finding the......more

Goodreads review by Julie on May 15, 2014

If you are going to read Joyce Carol Oates (and you should), I absolutely insist that you start with her short stories. I haven't read enough of her novels to definitively say they don't measure up, but I simply cannot get enough of her short stories. This collection, which includes a story that is......more

Goodreads review by Aaron on October 10, 2015

I have read many Joyce Carol Oates books scattered throughout her career, so I kind of know what to expect from her short stories and novels. This is no exception to the rule. The stories in "Black Dahlia & White Rose" all have the tension that something bad is going to happen or that something bad......more

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