Night, Neon: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781613162309)

From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery & suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life--from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s magazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's ideals of beauty and womanhood.

Taken as a whole, the collection forms a poignant tapestry of regular people searching for their place in a social hierarchy, often with devastating and disastrous results. Rendered with stylish, fresh writing from an author who continues to push the envelope, the stories deftly weave in and out of a stream-of-consciousness to reflect the ways we process traumatic experiences and impart that uncertainty and uneasiness to the reader.

Originally appearing in publications as disparate as Harper's, Vice, and Conjunctions, the stories comprising Night, Neon showcase Oates' mastery of the suspense story--and her relentless use of the form to conduct unapologetically honest explorations of American identity.

Author: Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN-10: 1613162308
ISBN-13: 9781613162309
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Language: English
Published: 06/15/2021
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2021
Publishers Weekly 04/26/2021