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| Genre/Form: | Diaries |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Journal of Joyce Carol Oates. New York : Ecco, ©2007 (OCoLC)608339569 |
| Named Person: | Joyce Carol Oates; Joyce Carol Oates |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joyce Carol Oates; Greg Johnson |
| ISBN: | 9780061227981 0061227986 |
| OCLC Number: | 148886862 |
| Description: | xiv, 509 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Other Titles: | Diaries. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Greg Johnson. |
Abstract:
The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates, edited by Greg Johnson, offers a rare first glimpse into the private thoughts of this extraordinary writer. This volume focuses on excerpts from the journal written during the crucial first decade, 1973-1982, one of the most productive of Oates's long career. Housed in her archive at Syracuse University, the journals themselves run to more than 5,000 single spaced typewritten pages. Far more than just a daily account of a writer's writing life, these intimate, unrevised pages candidly explore Oates' friendship with other writers, including John Updike, Donald Barthelme, Susan Sontag, Gail Godwin, and Philip Roth, among others. Oates also describes, in vivid and captivating detail, her university teaching, her love of the natural world, her rural background, her vast reading, her critics, her travels, and, predominantly, the "silent, secret" life of the imagination. -- BOOK JACKET.
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