By The North Gate by Joyce Carol Oates
A linked collection of spare, often dark short stories set in a small Midwestern town, portraying ordinary residents—adolescents, farmers, teachers—whose desires, frustrations, and secret violences surface against a backdrop of isolation and moral ambiguity; through lyrical yet economical prose the narratives probe sexual longing, alienation, obsession, and cruelty, revealing the bleak consequences of repression and the harsh undercurrents beneath everyday domestic life.
- Published
- 1963
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- Unknown
- Original Language
- English
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