Synopsis
In this collection of twenty-one unforgettable stories, Joyce Carol Oates explores the mysterious private lives of men and women with vivid, unsparing precision and sympathy. By turns interlocutor and interpreter, magician and realist, she dissects the psyches of ordinary people and their potential for good and evil with chilling understatement and lasting power.
About Joyce Carol Oates
See more books from this AuthorAnother (the 21st, already) ho-hum collection demonstrating both Oates's unceasing productivity and her inexplicable willingness to gather embarrassingly shoddy work together with handfuls of stories actually worth preserving.
| Read Full Review of Faithless: Tales of Transgres...Oates long ago established herself as the nation's literary Weegee, prowling the mean streets of the American mind and returning with gloriously lurid takes on our midnight obsessions. If she has left
Mar 01 2001 | Read Full Review of Faithless: Tales of Transgres...Oates long ago established herself as the nation's literary Weegee, prowling the mean streets of the American mind and returning with gloriously lurid takes on our midnight obsessions. If she has left
Mar 01 2001 | Read Full Review of Faithless: Tales of Transgres...After putting down Joyce Carol Oates's new short story collection, FAITHLESS, I wasn't entirely sure that I liked it.
| Read Full Review of Faithless: Tales of Transgres...Although Oates' 25th short-story collection like many of the ones that preceded it would have benefited from some judicious pruning by the prolific (not to say graphomaniacal) author, the finest pieces in this chilly, unnerving catalog of human misbehavior (often perpetrated or witnessed ...
Apr 13 2001 | Read Full Review of Faithless: Tales of Transgres...I read Joyce Carol Oatess Bellefleur over 25 years ago and remember being immediately enthralled by the surreal world Oates created.
| Read Full Review of Faithless: Tales of Transgres...Joyce Carol Oates short story, Faithless, was originally published in the winter 1997 issue of Kenyon Review and was selected for inclusion in The Best American Mystery Stories 1998.
Nov 17 2010 | Read Full Review of Faithless: Tales of Transgres...An aggregated and normalized score based on 45 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes