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I Am No One You Know

ID 326670
Slug i-am-no-one-you-know-joyce-carol-oates
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Author : Joyce Carol Oates
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Description <p><span>I Am No One You Know contains nineteen startling stories that bear witness to the remarkably varied lives of Americans of our time. In "Fire," a troubled young wife discovers a rare, radiant happiness in an adulterous relationship. In "Curly Red," a girl makes a decision to reveal a family secret, and changes her life irrevocably. In "The Girl with the Blackened Eye," selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2001, a girl pushed to an even greater extreme of courage and desperation manages to survive her abduction by a serial killer. And in "Three Girls," two adventuresome NYU undergraduates seal their secret love by following, and protecting, Marilyn Monroe in disguise at Strand Used Books on a snowy evening in 1956.</span><br /><br /><span>These vividly rendered portraits of women, men, and children testify to Oates's compassion for the mysterious and luminous resources of the human spirit.</span></p>
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Publisher Harper Perennial
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Language eng
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Publication date first 2005-04-05
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  • ISBN: 9780060592899 (BC)

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