

What I Lived For
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Narrator: Charlie Thurston
Unabridged: 28 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 07/23/2019
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Psychological, Cultural Fiction
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Narrator: Charlie Thurston
Unabridged: 28 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 07/23/2019
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Psychological, Cultural Fiction
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.
Nobody wants to speak up for this book but I will. It's a huge breathless painful headlong dangerous full-pelt rush, all 600 pages of it. So accurate about the awfulness of the male mind that many pages were for me excruciating reading. It's horribly compelling. Quite brilliant. So naturally I thoug......more
Skimmed like mad. It's weird: I think Oblivion is one of my favourite books, and those stories are the most dense with detail I've ever read: what everyone's wearing, what's on the table, the lighting, weird things the characters did that day... but in Oblivion these details are captured in the narra......more
A day in the life of Jerome “Corky” Corcoran is quite a day indeed. It’s Memorial Day, 1992. Marilee Plummer, a black woman who had recently accused a black city council member of raping her, has apparently committed suicide. Corky doesn’t make any political friends when he calls for a full investig......more
This is one of the best books I have ever read, but it is NOT for the faint of heart. If you like your books clean, run. Fast. Now. This is Joyce Carol Oates at her best, because she seems to step out of her own comfort zone to tell the story of a hard-drinking young Irishman who loves 'em and leave......more