Sourland, Joyce Carol Oates
Sourland, Joyce Carol Oates
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Sourland
Stories of Loss, Grief, and Forgetting

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Coleen Marlo

Unabridged: 14 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/14/2010

Synopsis

“Oates is a fearless writer.” —Los Angeles Times “Oates is a master of the dark tale—stories of the hunted and the hunter, of violence, trauma, and deep psychic wounds.”—Booklist (starred review) Sourland is a gripping, haunting, and intensely moving collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates, one of America’s preeminent authors. Unforgettable tales that re-imagine the meaning of loss—often through violent means—Sourland is yet another extraordinary read from the literary icon who has previously brought us The Gravedigger’s Daughter, Blonde, We Were the Mulvaneys, and numerous other classic works of contemporary fiction.

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 Shel

Written after the death of her husband of 46 years, Joyce Carol Oates' A Widow's Story: A Memoir (2011) and Sourland: Stories (2010) cover similar ground. A thesis could be written, and considering Oates' prominence in American letters may well be, about how she uses the two different forms — short......more

Goodreads review by Apoorva

I'm going to do this story-wise. 1. Pumpkin-Head: Woah. SO disturbing. It begins so ordinarily, and then WHAM. 2. The Story of the Stabbing: Same incident, multiple versions. I've heard that before. 3. The Babysitter: Creepy. 4. Bonobo Momma: Whatever. 5. Bitch: Pointless. 6. Amputee: Really good until......more

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