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Author:

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-, author.

Title:

Extenuating circumstances : stories of crime and suspense / Joyce Carol Oates.

Edition:

First Mysterious Press edition.

Publisher:

The Mysterious Press

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

vi, 517 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Thrillers (Fiction.)
Psychological fiction.
Short stories.

Other Titles:

Short stories Selections.

Summary:

"Two hitmen in a depressed rust belt town struggle with a job gone wrong. A girl witnesses a horrifying accident and carries it with her for the rest of her life. Medical students bring a severed foot to a college party. Five-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Joyce Carol Oates has made a career of exploring the forbidden corners of human experience, and the stories collected here, spanning her first three decades as a writer, are among her most unsettling and unforgettable works to date. These tales have not appeared in any form this century--until now; formally fresh and endlessly experimental, they show a writer boldly engaging with disturbing truths and terrifying possibilities, and deconstructing the tropes and expectations of traditional prose writing as she does so. But beyond their stylistic ingenuity, these are creepy, suspenseful stories that cut straight to the bone; their darkness will linger long after the final page is turned"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1613163150
9781613163153

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1334421904

LCCN:

bl2022015797

Locations:

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TZPC572 -- Center Point Public Library (Center Point)

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XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

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SPPE104 -- Independence Public Library (Independence)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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FFPC194 -- Nashua Public Library (Nashua)

HPPD845 -- Orange City Public Library (Orange City)

GMPD771 -- Pleasant Hill Public Library (Pleasant Hill)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

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SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)