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 Crossing the Border
by Joyce Carol Oates
New York: Vanguard, 1976
265 pages
Dust Jacket Blurb
CROSSING THE BORDER is a new collection of short stories by one of North America's foremost literary figures. In this volume, individuals approach and sometimes cross borders—borders separating men from women, innocence from experience, one way of life from another. The scene is often set in Canada, the great land beyond the border of the United States so inadequately known by most Americans. Residing as she does in that country, Miss Oates writes with a sympathetic knowledge of the people on both sides of the border whose stories she tells with her matchless artistry.
Contents
Crossing the Border
Love. Friendship.
Hello Fine Day Isn't It
Through the Looking Glass
Natural Boundries
Dreams
Customs
The Transformation of Vincent Scoville
The Golden Madonna
The Scream
The Liberation of Jake Hanley
An Incident in the Park
Falling in Love in Ashton, British Columbia
The Tempter
River Rising
Excerpt
From "Dreams"
Because she never had to worry about money she did odd casual things—she taught night courses in poetry at a university extension, she worked as a kind of secretary for a welfare program, she went to Europe with friends. She had a number of friends. They thought of her as a poet, because she wrote poetry and had had several poems published. And so she became a "poet" and people respected her, able at last to categorize that halting gentleness about her, that hesitation in her talk—which was always intelligent talk—the result really of fear but which they took to be a sign of her poetic sensibility. She went to parties and was to be seen talking with groups of men, hesitant, sincere, keen, her dark eyes intelligent and a little haunted at the same time, as if she were afraid of what might happen when the talking had to stop—in short, therefore, an ordinary intelligent woman who happened not to be married, in a society which defined women in terms of their relationship to men.
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Reviews
- Publishers Weekly, June 21, 1976, p86
- New York Times Book Review, July 18, 1976, p8, 10
- Washington Post Book World, July 18, 1976, pG4
- Newsweek, July 26, 1976, p74
- Library Journal, August 1976, p1659
- Booklist, September 15, 1976, p122
- Southwest Review, Autumn 1976, p438-441
- Choice, November 1976, p1139
- Canadian Forum, December 1976-January 1977, p55
- Canadian Review of American Studies, Fall 1977, p36-242
- Sewanee Review, Winter 1977, p106-107
- New Statesman, July 7, 1978, p27
- Spectator, July 8, 1978, p26
- Times Literary Supplement, July 14, 1978, p789
- Observer, July 30, 1978, p26
- Listener, January 4, 1979, p30-31
Awards
- The Best Little Magazine Fiction, 1971: "Through the Looking Glass"
Other Editions
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Page address:
http://jco.usfca.edu/works/stories/crossing.html
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