What I Lived for

Joyce Carol Oates, Author Plume Books $20 (624p) ISBN 978-0-452-27269-9

PODCAST

PW Radio 88: Joyce Carol Oates

ARTICLES

The Moral Self Within
Just Saying “Yes”: Joyce Carol Oates
Stark Bewilderment: PW talks with Joyce Carol Oates

OTHER BOOKS

Faithless: Tales of Transgression
MIDDLE AGE: A Romance
Small Avalanches and Other Stories
Woman Writer
Carthage
Missing Mom
I Lock My Door Upon Myself
The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares
FREAKY GREEN EYES
Jack of Spades
High Lonesome: Stories 1966–2006
Man Crazy
Black Dahlia & White Rose
The Gravedigger's Daughter
The Barrens
Sexy
Assignation
THE TATTOOED GIRL
The Best American Essays 1991
The Rise of Life on Earth
Where Is Here
My Heart Laid Bare
The Man Without a Shadow
BIG MOUTH & UGLY GIRL
Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque
Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You
High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread
Mudwoman
The Assignation: Stories
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories
Daddy Love
Marya: A Life
Wild Nights! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James and Hemingway
Black Water
Blonde
The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
Time Traveler
BEST NEW AMERICAN VOICES 2003
A Fair Maiden
Dear Husband: Stories
Black Dahlia & White Rose: Stories
We Were the Mulvaneys
A Book of American Martyrs
Where I've Been, and Where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, Prose
Uncensored: Views & (Re)Views
A Widow's Story: A Memoir
Zombie: 9
The Accursed
Little Bird of Heaven
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
Black Girl/White Girl
The Sacrifice
First Love: A Gothic Tale
The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror
I'LL TAKE YOU THERE
George Bellows: American Artist
Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
Broke Heart Blues
The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art
Soul at the White Heat: Inspiration, Obsession, and the Writing Life
After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away
In Rough Country: Essays and Reviews
Jack of Spades: A Tale of Suspense
The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973–1982
The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
American Appetites
THE FALLS
The Sophisticated Cat: 2a Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings about Cats
Haunted: 2tales of the Grotesque
Come Meet Muffin!
Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong
Wonderland
The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque
I AM NO ONE YOU KNOW
Sourland
You Must Remember This
Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories
BEASTS
RAPE: A Love Story
New Jersey Noir
Tenderness
My Sister, My Love
Daddy Love
Will You Always Love Me?: 9and Other Stories
What You Wish For: A Book for Darfur
Where Is Little Reynard?
FREAKY GREEN EYES

Buy this book

Another big novel from the prolific Oates, this tale of a successful middle-aged real estate developer whose hidden past surges up to wreak havoc on his present was one of PW's best books for 1994 and a PEN/Faulkner nominee. (Oct.)

Reviewed on: 10/02/1995
Release date: 10/01/1995
Genre: Fiction

Hardcover - 608 pages - 978-0-525-93836-1

Paperback - 978-0-451-18448-1

Analog Audio Cassette - 978-0-453-00907-2

Show other formats

FORMATS

Buy this book

MORE BOOKS YOU'D LIKE