Them / Joyce Carol Oates ; introduction by Elaine Showalter ; afterword by the author.
Record details
- ISBN: 0345484401 (pbk.) :
- Physical Description: xxxiv, 546 p. ; 19 cm.
- Edition: 2006 Modern Library pbk. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Modern Library, 2006.
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Subject: | Working class families > Fiction. Young women > Fiction. Poor women > Fiction. Detroit (Mich.) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Bildungsromans. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Black Rock Branch - Bridgeport | FIC OATES (Text) | 34000075106146 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Somers Public Library | FIC OAT (Text) | 34042121796520 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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Author Notes
Them
Joyce Carol Oates was born on June 16, 1938 in Lockport, New York. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Syracuse University and a master's degree in English from the University of Wisconsin. She is the author of numerous novels and collections of short stories. Her works include We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, Bellefleur, You Must Remember This, Because It Is Bitter, Because It Is My Heart, Solstice, Marya : A Life, and Give Me Your Heart. She has received numerous awards including the National Book Award for Them, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Literature. She was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with her title Lovely, Dark, Deep. She also wrote a series of suspense novels under the pseudonym Rosamond Smith. In 2015, her novel The Accursed became listed as a bestseller on the iBooks chart. She worked as a professor of English at the University of Windsor, before becoming the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. She and her late husband Raymond J. Smith operated a small press and published a literary magazine, The Ontario Review. (Bowker Author Biography)