High Crime Area, Joyce Carol Oates
High Crime Area, Joyce Carol Oates
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High Crime Area
Tales of Darkness and Dread

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Julia Whelan, Ray Chase, Donna Postel

Unabridged: 7 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/14/2014

Synopsis

In the title story, a white aspiring professor is convinced she is being followed. No need to panic—she has a handgun stowed away in her purse, just in case. But when she turns to confront her black male shadow, the situation isn’t what she expects. In “The Rescuer,” a promising graduate student detours to inner-city Trenton, New Jersey, to save her brother from a downward spiral. But she soon finds out there may be more to his world than to hers. And in “The Last Man of Letters,” the world-renowned author X embarks on a final grand tour of Europe. He has money, fame, but not a whole lot of manners. A little thing like etiquette couldn’t bring a man like X down, could it? In these biting and beautiful pieces, Oates confronts, one by one, the demons within us, demonstrating that sometimes, it’s not the human side that wins out.

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 Fiona on March 12, 2018

Such strange stories, I can't get them out of my head. I think this might be what JCO is known for. Her stories read like snapshots, often without a beginning or an end, they are instead a fragment of a memory, and usually unnerving and unsettling to top it off! I have 3 more JCO books to read and wi......more

Goodreads review by Paula on September 07, 2014

Oates is always good at what she does and these stories are pretty dark. When reading Oates, I feel like I'm reading under a magnifying glass into the characters because she really gets into the underbelly of a person. I especially liked The Home at Craigmillnar. The book is worth it just for that s......more

Goodreads review by Nicki on May 25, 2023

New to me author. Though short stories aren’t my favourite, I am starting to come around to them thanks to reading some interesting ones lately. Definitely interested in reading more by this author. Very dark though, and a lot of themes including rape and child abuse, so this definitely won’t be for......more

Goodreads review by Laura on November 27, 2014

I always look forward to reading stories by Joyce Carol Oates. My only complaint with this book was that it was too short; I wanted more stories, more words. High Crime Area contains eight stories, all of which feature the author's ability to fully adapt her writing style to make it unique for each s......more

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