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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Beautiful days
    sub title: stories
  title info:
    title: Short stories. Selections
  name:
    name part: Oates, Joyce Carol
    name part: 1938-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: short story
  genre: Thrillers (Fiction)
  genre: Short stories.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 334 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien." In the diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explores the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves, who assert their independence in acts of bold and often irrevocable defiance. "Fleuve Bleu" exemplifies the rich sensuousness of Oates's prose as lovers married to other persons vow to establish, in their intimacy, a ruthlessly honest, truth-telling authenticity missing elsewhere in their complicated lives, with unexpected results. In "Big Burnt," set on lushly rendered Lake George, in the Adirondacks, a cunningly manipulative university professor exploits a too-trusting woman in a way she could never have anticipated. "The Nice Girl" depicts a young woman who has been, through her life, infuriatingly "nice," until she is forced to come to terms with the raw desperation of her deepest self. In a more experimental but no less intimate mode, "Les beaux jours" examines the ambiguities of an intensely erotic, exploitative relationship between a "master" artist and his adoring young female model. And the tragic "Undocumented Alien" depicts a young African student enrolled in an American university who is suddenly stripped of his student visa and forced to undergo a terrifying test of courage. In these stories, as elsewhere in her fiction, Joyce Carol Oates exhibits her fascination with the social, psychological, and moral boundaries that govern our behavior--until the hour when they do not"--
  abstract: "A new collection of stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, mysterious and surreal, and perfectly pitched for the confusion of the current political landscape"--
  table of contents: Fleuve bleu -- Big burnt -- Owl eyes -- Except you bless me -- The quiet car -- The bereaved -- Les beaux jours -- Fractal -- Undocumented alien -- Donald Barthelme saved from oblivion -- The memorial field at Hazard, Minnesota.
  note: Joyce Carol Oates.
  subject:
    topic: FICTION
    topic: Short Stories (single author)
  subject:
    topic: FICTION
    topic: Literary
  subject:
    topic: FICTION
    topic: Psychological
  subject:
    topic: Women
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Girls
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Danger perception
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: American fiction
    topic: Women authors
  subject:
    topic: Short stories
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Psychological
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Literary
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
  classification: PS3565.A8 A6 2018
  classification: 813/.54
  classification: FIC029000 FIC019000 FIC025000
  identifier: 9780062795786
  identifier: 0062795783
  identifier: 9780062795809
  identifier: 2017038048
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170829
    record change date: 20180501142529.0
    record identifier: in00003961423
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng