The Assignation: Stories
by Joyce Carol Oates (9780880014403)

A woman's lover seems not to recognize her on the street. A teenage girl accepts a ride from a stranger in a rust-speckled Cadillac. An old man is obsessed by the memory of his innocent childhood intrusion on a half-dressed aunt.

In forty-four very short, very powerful stories, Joyce Carol Oates fashions brief, intensely compact dramas out of the unwieldy material of human experience. The stories in "The Assignation" are infused with a "radiant intensity," wrote James Atlas in the "New York Times Book Review," and they convey the depth and scope of a novel in a few charged pages. "The Assignation" is an electric display of the talents that make Joyce Carol Oates one of our finest short story writers.

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