Solstice

Name: Solstice
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN: 9780062898067

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Emily Durante

Unabridged: 7 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 03/19/2019

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Psychological, Classic

Synopsis

An engrossing early novel from Joyce Carol Oates’s earlier novels explores a fraught and perilous relationship between two women.Originally published in 1985, Solstice is the gripping story of Monica Jensen and Sheila Trask, two young women who are complete opposites yet find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other. Monica is a shy, modest, and recently divorced school teacher while Sheila is a worldly, sophisticated, and nocturnal painter driven by the needs of her art. Over the months, their friendship deepens, first to love and then to a near-fatal obsession.Engaging, dark, and mysterious, Solstice is Joyce Carol Oates’s psychological masterpiece of friendship and fixation.

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 Mary

I have absolutely no idea what this book was about.......more

Goodreads review by luce (that loser who is always crying)

| | blog | tumblr | ko-fi | | 3.5 stars At its core this is a dizzying tale of the fraught and destructive relationship between two solipsistic women. Alabyrinthine narrative follows characters that are mired in their own ambivalence. Until her divorceMonica Jensen was quite comfortable in her role......more

Goodreads review by Inderjit

The plot of ‘Solstice’ meanders along somewhat loosely and aimlessly, following the friendship of the beautiful, if mediocre, Monica Jensen and the Falstaffian artist, Sheila Trask, whose eccentricities and somewhat haphazard way of life serve to life Monica out of the sense of mediocrity which has......more