My Heart Laid BareDutton, 1998 - 531 頁 "My Heart Laid Bare" is a striking departure for Joyce Carol Oates: a sweeping saga of the fortunes and misfortunes of a family of enterprising confidence artists in 19th-century America. Mythic in scope, ballad-like in the telling, it is Oates's most daring work yet--a stunning tale of crime and transgression--with profound moral consequences. Oates's picture of America as a land of opportunity to immigrants and settlers takes on a dark tone as we see these veritable shape-shifters exploit the unsuspecting rich by appealing to their deepest flaws. Yet recognizing the sins of greed, lust, pride, and small-mindedness in others does not prevent the patriarch and his brilliant children from being laid low by the same faults. From the virgin provinces of New York State to the rough and tumble Western frontier, from the backrooms of Washington, D.C., to the Atlantic City of the Gilded Age, from Carnegie Hall to Harlem in the twenties, "My Heart Laid Bare" transports readers with its mesmerizing narrative voice. "Dazzling...Oates at her most playful and inventive." -- "San Francisco Chronicle" "Provocative...Oates's accomplishment here is to construct an original way of looking at American history." -- "The New York Times Book Review" "A triumph...shows off Oates's macabre, lushly poetic imagination, almost feverish, yet always in perfect control." -- "San Diego Union Tribune" "Fresh, spirited...full of zestful criminality." -- "Atlanta Journal Constitution" |
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... close - mouthed , said to be of the Devil's tribe , who never failed at a birth and never rejoiced at a birth ... close upon the heels of the British at Valley Forge , close upon the heels of the Americans at Jockey Hollow , where many a ...
... close - mouthed , said to be of the Devil's tribe , who never failed at a birth and never rejoiced at a birth ... close upon the heels of the British at Valley Forge , close upon the heels of the Americans at Jockey Hollow , where many a ...
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... close - set eyes flashed and beamed with masculine good humor ; he was the sort to immediately inspire confidence , Abraham Licht conceded - feeling in that instant suddenly old , and not prepared to return to The Game . Means , however ...
... close - set eyes flashed and beamed with masculine good humor ; he was the sort to immediately inspire confidence , Abraham Licht conceded - feeling in that instant suddenly old , and not prepared to return to The Game . Means , however ...
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... close by . That woman the villagers whispered was his mother yet who was not his mother yet plagues him from the grave behaving as if she is . " Woman , let me be ! Mercy , please . " He'd been stunned , and deeply mortified , to bring ...
... close by . That woman the villagers whispered was his mother yet who was not his mother yet plagues him from the grave behaving as if she is . " Woman , let me be ! Mercy , please . " He'd been stunned , and deeply mortified , to bring ...
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