Her Art Laid Bare: Provisional Notes about Joyce Carol Oates
Kellman, Steven G., Michigan Quarterly Review
Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates. By Greg Johnson. New York: Dutton, 1998. Pp. 492. $34.95.
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My Heart Laid Bare. By Joyce Carol Oates. New York: Dutton, 1998. Pp. 532. $26.95.
After Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife came out in 1971, it took William Gass twenty-four years to produce his next novel, The Tunnel. During that same period, 1971-95, Joyce Carol Oates, who has dismissed Gass's prose as "frankly gaseous," published twenty-five novels-in addition to eighteen short story compilations, three collections of novellas, five volumes …
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Publication information:
Article title: Her Art Laid Bare: Provisional Notes about Joyce Carol Oates.
Contributors: Kellman, Steven G. - Author.
Journal title: Michigan Quarterly Review.
Volume: 38.
Issue: 3
Publication date: Summer 1999.
Page number: 487+.
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