Joyce Carol Oates stories

305 Pages·2004·2.08 MB·English

by  Joyce Carol Oates

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I Am No One
You Know
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to Robert and Peggy Boyers

CONTENTS
part one
Curly Red 3
In Hiding 21
I’m Not Your Son, I Am No One You Know 28
Aiding and Abetting 37
Fugitive 49
Me & Wolfie, 1979 54
The Girl with the Blackened Eye 73
part two
Cumberland Breakdown 87
Upholstery 105
Wolf’s Head Lake 117
Happiness 119
Fire 138
The Instructor 157
contents

part three
The Skull: A Love Story 191
The Deaths: An Elegy 213
Jorie (& Jamie): A Deposition 233
Mrs. Halifax and Rickie Swann: A Ballad 245
part four
Three Girls 271
The Mutants 281
Acknowledgments 289
About the Author
Recent Story Collections by Joyce Carol Oates
Credits
Cover
Copyright
About the Publisher

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