{"product_id":"beautiful-days-joyce-carol-oates-9780062795786","title":"Beautiful Days: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning \"Undocumented Alien\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe diverse stories of \u003cem\u003eBeautiful Days, \u003c\/em\u003e Joyce Carol Oates explore the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves, who assert their independence in acts of bold and often irrevocable defiance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fleuve Bleu\" exemplifies the rich sensuousness of Oates's prose as lovers married to other persons vow to establish, in their intimacy, a ruthlessly honest, truth-telling authenticity missing elsewhere in their complicated lives, with unexpected results. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \"Big Burnt,\" set on lushly rendered Lake George, in the Adirondacks, a cunningly manipulative university professor exploits a too-trusting woman in a way she could never have anticipated. In a more experimental but no less intimate mode, \"Les beaux jours\" examines the ambiguities of an intensely erotic, exploitative relationship between a \"master\" artist and his adoring young female model. And the tragic \"Undocumented Alien\" depicts a young African student enrolled in an American university who is suddenly stripped of his student visa and forced to undergo a terrifying test of courage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these stories, as elsewhere in her fiction, Joyce Carol Oates exhibits her fascination with the social, psychological, and moral boundaries that govern our behavior--until the hour when they do not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joyce Carol Oates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0062795783\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062795786\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/04\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2018 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2018 pg. 78","brand":"Joyce Carol Oates","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44071071777023,"sku":"9780062795786","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_51cb8540-b7f2-4f83-a84a-c210e810e23b.jpg?v=1685433990","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beautiful-days-joyce-carol-oates-9780062795786","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}