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JOYCE CAROL OATES is the author of many works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. She is the editor of New Jersey Noir, Prison Noir, A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers, and Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers. Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award, PEN America's Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Humanities Medal, and a World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Huge, humorous, manic, and multilayered, Oates's twenty-ninth novel will rank high among the best work she has produced in her prolific career.-- ""Publishers Weekly, Starred Review"" A sharp, funny look at how memories can warp reality . . . heart-wrenching and beautifully written.-- ""Wall Street Journal"" A sparkling comic hit.-- ""Boston Sunday Herald"" Densely layered, meticulously imagined . . . [a] shared coming-of-age tale fraught with the absurd comedy and uproarious sadness of adolescent obsession . . . among the most entertaining of Oates's novels.-- ""Miami Herald"" Funny and playful . . . displays great inventiveness and a justified belief in its relevance to our emotional lives.-- ""New York Times Book Review"" It's hard to think of another writer with as fecund and protean an imagination as the eighty-five-year-old Joyce Carol Oates, who is surely on any short list of America's greatest living writers.-- ""New York Times Magazine"" Oates uses her astonishingly plentiful imagination to paint the portrait of . . . virtually an entire generation of a town . . . Rife with life.-- ""Washington Post Book World"" Joyce Carol Oates's stunning novel about one town's ramped passion for a boy accused of murder, Broke Heart Blues, feels more resonant than ever in this reissue with a thoughtful afterword.-- ""Shelf Awareness"" With Broke Heart Blues, Oates does for high school reunions what Huckleberry Finn did for the Mississippi . . . Great authors have a way of rendering common things extraordinary . . . This dry satire of America's thirst for scandal is perfectly calibrated.-- ""Christian Science Monitor""
