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Night, neon : tales of mystery and suspense / Joyce Carol Oates.

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- (author.). Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Detour. (Added Author). Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Curious. (Added Author). Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Miss Golden Dreams 1949. (Added Author). Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Wanting. (Added Author). Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Parole hearing, California Institution for Women, Chino, CA. (Added Author). Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Intimacy. (Added Author). Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Flagellant. (Added Author). Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Vaping: a user's manual. (Added Author).

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Presents nine tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life--from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s magazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's ideals of beauty and womanhood.

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  • ISBN: 9781613162309
  • ISBN: 1613162308
  • Physical Description: 299 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Mysterious Press edition.
  • Publisher: New York : The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Penzler Publishers, [2021]

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Detour -- Curious -- Miss Golden Dreams 1949 -- Wanting -- Parole hearing, California Institution for Women, Chino, CA -- Intimacy -- Flagellant -- Vaping: a user's manual -- Night, neon.

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