Where are You Going, where Have You Been?: Selected Early StoriesThe sixties and seventies witnessed the emergence of Joyce Carol Oates as one of America's foremost writers of the short story. In 1962, 'The Fine White Mist of Winter, ' composed when the author was 19 years old, appeared in The Literary Review and was selected for both the O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories of that year. |
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... Dorie , riding with Mark Arber on the expressway to Boston , was at least young and stupid , anonymous though she was , and probably she too had a slim collection of poems that Mark would manage to get published ... and who knew what ...
... Dorie , riding with Mark Arber on the expressway to Boston , was at least young and stupid , anonymous though she was , and probably she too had a slim collection of poems that Mark would manage to get published ... and who knew what ...
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... Dorie sat chaste with her tiny forkfuls of food , and Barbara could eat three platefuls to Dorie's one ; her appetite increased savagely just in the presence of the girl . ( The girl was always asking , politely , " Is it the boys who ...
... Dorie sat chaste with her tiny forkfuls of food , and Barbara could eat three platefuls to Dorie's one ; her appetite increased savagely just in the presence of the girl . ( The girl was always asking , politely , " Is it the boys who ...
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... Dorie to say good - by and Barbara , thinking herself admi- rably discreet , went upstairs alone . She drove Dorie to Boston the next day . Dorie was a mother's child , the kind of girl mothers admire - clean , bright , passive— and it ...
... Dorie to say good - by and Barbara , thinking herself admi- rably discreet , went upstairs alone . She drove Dorie to Boston the next day . Dorie was a mother's child , the kind of girl mothers admire - clean , bright , passive— and it ...
Contents
UPON THE SWEEPING FLOOD 1966 | 31 |
THE WHEEL OF LOVE 1970 | 99 |
Contemplated the World from the Detroit House | 179 |
Copyright | |
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