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 Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Selected Early Stories
by Joyce Carol Oates
Princeton, NJ: Ontario Review Press, 1993
522 pages
Dust Jacket Blurb
The sixties and seventies witnessed the emergence of Joyce Carol Oates as one of America's foremost writers of the short story. In 1962, "The Fine White Mist of Winter," composed when the author was 19 years old, appeared in The Literary Review and was selected for both the O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories of that year. Between 1964 and 1977, Oates published six important books of short fiction: By the North Gate, Upon the Sweeping Flood, The Wheel of Love, Marriages and Infidelities, The Goddess, and Night-Side. Two of the stories written during this period, "In the Region of Ice" and "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (retitled Smooth Talk), were made into prize-winning motion pictures. The author has chosen these and 25 others, many of them O. Henry Award and/or Best American Short Story selections, for this volume. The original collections long out of print, Where Are You Going . . . will make accessible again Joyce Carol Oates's best early stories.
Contents
BY THE NORTH GATE, 1963
Edge of the World
The Fine White Mist of Winter
UPON THE SWEEPING FLOOD, 1966
First Views of the Enemy
At the Seminary
What Death with Love Should Have to Do
Upon the Sweeping Flood
THE WHEEL OF LOVE, 1970
In the Region of Ice
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Unmailed, Unwritten Letters
Accomplished Desires
How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again
Four Summers
MARRIAGES AND INFIDELITIES, 1972
Love and Death
By the River
Did You Ever Slip on Red Blood?
The Lady with the Pet Dog
The Turn of the Screw
The Dead
THE GODDESS AND OTHER WOMEN, 1974
Concerning the Case of Bobby T.
In the Warehouse
Small Avalanches
NIGHT-SIDE, 1977
The Widows
The Translation
Bloodstains
Daisy
UNCOLLECTED, 1968, 1972
The Molesters
Silkie
AFTERWORD
Excerpt
From the Afterword:
Over a period of three decades I seem to have published somewhere beyond four hundred short stories—a number as daunting, or more daunting, to me, as to any other. The motives have nearly always to do with memorializing people, or a landscape, or an event, or a profound and riddlesome experience that can only be contemplated in the solitude of art. There is the hope too of "bearing witness" for those who can't speak for themselves; the hope of recording mysteries whose very contours I can scarcely define, except through transforming them into structures that lay claim to some sort of communal permanence. For what links us are elemental experiences—emotions—forces that have no intrinsic language and must be imagined as art if they are to be contemplated at all.
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Reviews
- Publisher's Weekly, March 22, 1993, p72
- Booklist, April 1, 1993, p1410
- Los Angeles Times Book Review, April 11, 1993, p6
- Detroit News, April 28, 1993, C, 3
- Chicago Tribune, May 16, 1993, 14, 6
- Atlanta Journal Constitution, July 23, 1993, N, 8
- Belles Lettres: A Review of Books by Women, Fall, 1993, p24
- Southern Review, Autumn, 1993, p802+
- World Literature Today, Spring, 1994, p369+
Awards
- Best American Short Stories, 1978: "The Translation"
- Best American Short Stories, 1973: "Silkie"
- Prize Stories: The O Henry Awards, 1st Prize, 1973: "The Dead"
- The Best Little Magazine Fiction, 1970: "Unmailed, Unwritten Letters"
- Prize Stories: The O Henry Awards, 1970: "Unmailed, Unwritten Letters"
- Best American Short Stories, 1970: "How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction, and Began My Life Over Again"
- Prize Stories: The O Henry Awards, 1970: "How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction, and Began My Life Over Again"
- Best American Short Stories, 1969: "By the River"
- Prize Stories: The O Henry Awards, 1968, 2nd Prize: "Accomplished Desires"
- Prize Stories: The O Henry Awards, 1968: "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
- Best American Short Stories, 1967: "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
- Prize Stories: The O Henry Awards, 1st Prize, 1967: "In the Region of Ice"
- Best American Short Stories, 1965: "First Views of the Enemy"
- Prize Stories: The O Henry Awards, 1965: "First Views of the Enemy"
- Best American Short Stories, 1964: "Upon the Sweeping Flood"
- Best American Short Stories, 1963: "The Fine White Mist of Winter"
- Prize Stories: The O Henry Awards, 1963: "The Fine White Mist of Winter"
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http://jco.usfca.edu/works/stories/going.html
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