Night, neon : tales of mystery and suspense / Joyce Carol Oates.
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.
Record details
- 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]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 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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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | FIC OATES (Text) | 36015001833058 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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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.
