Embracing the twists and turns of everyday American life, the author’s latest short story collection is playful, gripping and disturbing
Photograph: DenisTangneyJr/Getty Images/iStockphotoPhotograph: DenisTangneyJr/Getty Images/iStockphotooyce Carol Oates’s multitudinous collections are repeatedly subtitled “tales of suspense” or “stories of mystery”. You tend to know what you’re getting with an Oatesian short – a disquieting snapshot of American life on the verge of individual or ideological collapse – and these nine additions to her oeuvre don’t disappoint.
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