

Son of the Morning
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Narrator: Mike Ortego
Unabridged: 14 hr 45 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 07/03/2018
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Psychological, Short Stories
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Narrator: Mike Ortego
Unabridged: 14 hr 45 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 07/03/2018
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Psychological, Short Stories
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.
Joyce Carol Oates can sure write vernacular, but this book needed editing. It was just way too long, and had way too many strange side plots. I suppose as with all shooting-star, schizophrenic, half-cocked prophet types, there's bound to be a lot of chaos and excitement without much coherence to the......more
This is pretty much the scariest book I have ever read. It's about a child prodigy preacher-turned radio evangelist in the sticks of upstate New York. Read it. Hicks and religous zealots are terrifying. Pair them with the scariest literary depiction of Jesus EVER, and we have a winner.......more
This is the third novel by Oates that I have read, and she always rewards the reader with a good story. The book is long (409 pages), and drags just a little bit at the end, but does hold your attention. The story focuses on Nathan Vickery, a boy born out of difficult circumstances who becomes a boy......more
I really did not like this book that follows the life of an evangelist who was identified as such as a young boy. Not sure whether the topic itself bothered me--the rigidity and potential for corruption of extreme religiousity. Could have been that I'm just not familiar enough with some of the nuanc......more