Dimensions
151 x 203 x 19mm
Now in paperback, a new collection of short stories from bestselling and award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates that Kirkus reviews described as "vintage 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 tracking, and protecting, Marilyn Monroe in disguise in Strand Used Books on a snowy evening in 1957.
These vividly rendered portraits of women, men, and children, testify to Oates' compassion for the mysterious and luminous resources of the human spirit.
