| Title | : | I Am No One You Know |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Joyce Carol Oates |
| Release | : | 2009-10-13 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Short Stories, Books, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Literary Anthologies, Horror, Essays |
| Size | : | 965202 |
| I Am No One You Know contains nineteen startling stories that bear witness to the remarkably varied lives of Americans of our time. In "Fire," a troubled young wife discovers a rare, radiant happiness in an adulterous relationship. In "Curly Red," a girl makes a decision to reveal a family secret, and changes her life irrevocably. In "The Girl with the Blackened Eye," selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2001, a girl pushed to an even greater extreme of courage and desperation manages to survive her abduction by a serial killer. And in "Three Girls," two adventuresome NYU undergraduates seal their secret love by following, and protecting, Marilyn Monroe in disguise at Strand Used Books on a snowy evening in 1956. These vividly rendered portraits of women, men, and children testify to Oates's compassion for the mysterious and luminous resources of the human spirit. |
