The Frenzy
Stories
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The Frenzy
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“A genius in the truest sense of the word.”—Rebecca Makkai
“One of the greatest writers among us today.”—Gillian Flynn
A LIT HUB MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR
Frenzy (noun): a temporary madness; a violent mental or emotional agitation; intense usually wild and often disorderly compulsive or agitated activity
Joyce Carol Oates is a master of the short story and one of the legends of the form. Her collections of short fiction have twice been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and have won numerous awards, including the O. Henry Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Art of the Short Story. In The Frenzy: Stories, Oates plunges us into the lives of her characters at moments of crisis and confusion, when much of what they understand about themselves and those they love comes undone.
A young woman on a supposedly romantic weekend trip to Cape May, New Jersey, turns the tables on her older, married lover. A freak bicycle accident on a bridge haunts one family for decades. A girl jealous of her popular cousin discovers she is the lucky one. A widow waits at her riverside house for her dead husband's return. A young man hiking in the woods comes upon a couple in a heated, possibly violent argument—should he intervene?
Suspenseful and psychologically astute, Oates's short stories enthrall and captivate as they dissect her character's deepest fears—revealing our own in turn. "Literature is a texture of words," says Oates of her short fiction, "evoking life in the most vivid ways—psychologically, physically." These new stories blazingly evoke life at its most vivid and perilous, when fate and free will intersect, and one ominous encounter or bad choice can be the difference between an ordinary day and the point of no return.
Critic reviews
Praise for Joyce Carol Oates
“Oates is one of the greatest writers among us today.”—Gillian Flynn
“Oates is a genius in the truest sense of the word.”—Rebecca Makkai
“Nobody else writes like the great Joyce Carol Oates. It’s remarkable.”—Joseph Finder
“Protean and prodigious are surely the words that describe Ms. Oates.”—Richard Ford
“[Oates] is one of the handful of great American novelists of the last hundred years.”—Edmund White
“That rarity in American fiction, a writer who seems to grow with each new book.”—Time
“A literary master.”—Bookreporter
“A master of her craft.”—AARP
“Oates is one of the greatest writers among us today.”—Gillian Flynn
“Oates is a genius in the truest sense of the word.”—Rebecca Makkai
“Nobody else writes like the great Joyce Carol Oates. It’s remarkable.”—Joseph Finder
“Protean and prodigious are surely the words that describe Ms. Oates.”—Richard Ford
“[Oates] is one of the handful of great American novelists of the last hundred years.”—Edmund White
“That rarity in American fiction, a writer who seems to grow with each new book.”—Time
“A literary master.”—Bookreporter
“A master of her craft.”—AARP
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