The Lost Landscape, Joyce Carol Oates
The Lost Landscape, Joyce Carol Oates
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The Lost Landscape
A Writer's Coming of Age

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Unabridged: 11 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/08/2015

Synopsis

Written with the raw honesty and poignant insight that were the hallmarks of her acclaimed bestseller A Widow’s Story, an affecting and observant memoir of growing up from one of our finest and most beloved literary masters.The Lost Landscape is Joyce Carol Oates’ vivid chronicle of her hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State. From memories of her relatives, to those of a charming bond with a special red hen on her family farm; from her first friendships to her earliest experiences with death, The Lost Landscape is a powerful evocation of the romance of childhood, and its indelible influence on the woman and the writer she would become.In this exceptionally candid, moving, and richly reflective account, Oates explores the world through the eyes of her younger self, an imaginative girl eager to tell stories about the world and the people she meets. While reading Alice in Wonderland changed a young Joyce forever and inspired her to view life as a series of endless adventures, growing up on a farm taught her harsh lessons about sacrifice, hard work, and loss. With searing detail and an acutely perceptive eye, Oates renders her memories and emotions with exquisite precision, transporting us to a forgotten place and time—the lost landscape of her youth, reminding us of the forgotten landscapes of our own earliest lives. 

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 Lori L on September 06, 2015

"What is vivid in memory is the singular, striking, one-of-a-kind event or episode, encapsulated as if in amber.... not routine but what violates routine. Which is why the effort of writing a memoir is so fraught with peril, and even its small successes ringed by melancholy. The fact is - We have for......more

Goodreads review by Anfri on August 06, 2017

Molto piacevole questo memoir di J.C.Oates, una scrittrice che mi ha sempre incuriosito per la sua estrema prolificità letteraria e per la capacità di affrontare i generi e gli argomenti più disparati. Oltre a soddisfare la curiosità biografica questo libro contiene dei momenti letterari a mio avvis......more

Goodreads review by Emma on June 19, 2022

A very engaging Autobiography from Joyce Carol Oates. It focuses on her early years, with much time devoted to her childhood, a pet chicken, flying in a glider with her father and the sad death of a friend. Despite not knowing much about the author before I found it very compelling, and look forward......more

Goodreads review by John on November 10, 2015

I'm a fan of Oates, and I've read several of JCO's previous memoirs and really think this one is the weakest. As I moved through it, I felt that the book didn't have the essential Oates-ness of her earlier memoir pieces. I'm thinking especially of Widow's Story, her book about the death of her husba......more

Goodreads review by Nelliamoci on October 20, 2017

Joyce Carol Oates l’ho conosciuta così, un po’ per caso, e come tutte le conseguenze del fato si è trasformato in un amore folle fatto di libri e pagine e paragrafi e frasi che continuo a rileggere e cercare qua e là. (...) [URL not allowed]......more

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