02132cam a2200277 4500
1670782180
TxAuBib
20241023120000.0
||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u
9780063035232
0063035235
0028225050
Axis360
TxAuBib
Oates, Joyce Carol,
1938-
The Other You
[Boundless].
Ecco Pr,
2021.
A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we'd chosen a different path, from a master of the short storyIn this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives we might have led if we'd made different choices. An accomplished writer returns to her childhood home of Yewville, but the homecoming stirs troubled thoughts about the person she might have been if she'd never left. A man in prison contemplates the gravity of his irreversible act. A student's affair with a professor results in a pregnancy that alters the course of her life forever. Even the experience of reading is investigated as one that can create a profound transformation: 'You could enter another time, the time of the book." The (Other) You is an arresting and incisive vision into these alternative realities, a collection that ponders the constraints we all face given the circumstances of our birth and our temperaments, and that examines the competing pressures and expectations on women in particular. Finely attuned to the nuances of our social and psychic selves, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates here why she remains one of our most celebrated and relevant literary figures. .
Format: Blio.
FICTION / Short Stories (single author); FICTION / Psychological; FICTION / Literary.
General Adult.
Importer Version: 2016-03-11.01 Import Date: 2024-10-23 20:00:03.
Fiction
Literary.
Fiction
fast
Psychological.
Fiction
fast
Short Stories (single author.)
https://fpltx.boundless.baker-taylor.com/Title?itemId=0028225050
TXFLO