Oates Joyce Carol. I'm No One You Know

Short stories
HarperCollins Publishers 2004, 305 p.The Collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates.I Am No One You Know contains nineteen startling stories that bear witness to the remarkably varied lives of Americans of our time. In "Fire," a troubled young wife discovers a rare, radiant happiness in an adulterous relationship. In "Curly Red," a girl makes a decision to reveal a family secret, and changes her life irrevocably. In "The Girl with the Blackened Eye," selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2001, a girl pushed to an even greater extreme of courage and desperation manages to survive her abduction by a serial killer. And in "Three Girls," two adventuresome NYU undergraduates seal their secret love by following, and protecting, Marilyn Monroe in disguise at Strand Used Books on a snowy evening in 1956.These vividly rendered portraits of women, men, and children testify to Oates's compassion for the mysterious and luminous resources of the human spirit.PerfectBound and the PerfectBound logo are trademarks of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
Adobe Acrobat eBook March 2004 eISBN 0-06-072907-4