Joyce Carol Oates Faithless: Tales of Transgression Paperback Book

An enthralling collection of short stories from the National Book Award shortlisted author of Blonde and Middle Age. In this collection of 21 stories, the mysterious private lives of individuals are explored with vivid, unsparing precision and sympathy. By turn interlocutor and interpreter, magician and realist, Joyce Carol Oates dissects the psyches of ordinary people and their potential for good and evil with chilling understatement and lasting power. In Faithless two adult sisters recall their mothers disappearance when they were children in Ugly Girl a bitterly angry young woman defines herself as ugly as a way of making herself invulnerable to hurt, and in so doing hurts others in Lover a beautiful woman locked into an obsessive love affair seeks her revenge in a bizarre, violent manner. Intense and provocative, Faithless is a startling look into the heart of contemporary America from the modern master of the short story. | Joyce Carol Oates Faithless: Tales of Transgression Paperback Book