{"product_id":"night-neon-1","title":"Joyce Carol Oates: Night, Neon [2022] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery \u0026amp; suspense stories.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life - from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s magazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's ideals of beauty and womanhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaken as a whole, the collection forms a poignant tapestry of regular people searching for their place in a social hierarchy, often with devastating and disastrous results. Rendered with stylish, fresh writing from an author who continues to push the envelope, the stories deftly weave in and out of a stream-of-consciousness to reflect the ways we process traumatic experiences and impart that uncertainty and uneasiness to the reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally appearing in publications as disparate as \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVice\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eConjunctions\u003c\/i\u003e, the stories comprising \u003ci\u003eNight, Neon\u003c\/i\u003e showcase Oates' mastery of the suspense story - and her relentless use of the form to conduct unapologetically honest explorations of American identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Embracing the twists and turns of everyday American life, the author's latest short story collection is playful, gripping and disturbing' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oates, Joyce Carol","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42451858751673,"sku":"9781801104630","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/oates-joyce-carol-joyce-carol-oates-night-neon-2022-hardback-9781801104630-1145883103.jpg?v=1741557568","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/night-neon-1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}