Joyce Carol Oates is one of the world's most respected living novelists. Her new novel is an intense, deeply moving story of how a young woman finds her place in the world. 'In those days in the early 1960s we were not women yet but girls. This was, without irony perceived as our advantage.' So begins 'I'll Take You There', an astonishingly intimate and unsparing self-portrait of a young woman who comes of age in the most turbulent of American decades. 'Anellia' -- as she sometimes calls herself -- is a student at Syracuse University, the first time she has lived away from her family. Headstrong, passionate, occasionally obsessive, she is pitiless in exposing herself to her new life as she searches for a place in the world. In her quest for belonging, 'Anellia' discovers the risks, and curious rewards, of confronting the world: being taken in, and then cruelly rejected by a 'sisterhood' of her fellow students, falling recklessly in love with an older graduate student who happens to be black, making a journey westward when summoned by a figure from her past who she believed to be dead. Through this triptych of events, the atoms of 'Anellia's' life comes together as she begins her journey into adulthood. Joyce Carol Oates' new novel confirms her as one of America's most important writers. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our times. 'I'll Take You There' is a deeply moving, wry, intense examination of how a girl becomes a young woman.

I'll Take You There

Literature & Fiction

OATES,JOYCE CAROL

Contemporary

4th Estate

Joyce Carol Oates is one of the world's most respected living novelists. Her new novel brings us a tale of dark passions, prejudice, and the strange forms that love can take.A celebrated but reclusive author, young but in failing health, Joshua Seigl reluctantly realizes that he can no longer live alone. One day he encounters a young woman with synthetic-looking blond hair and pale, tattooed skin in a bookshop. She stirs something unidentifiable within him - pity? desire? responsibility? He decides that Alma will be his assistant.An uneasy relationship begins, one which lurches between repulsion and attraction, between hate and love. Seigl is unaware that Alma has been shaped by abuse and misfortune. His kindness is baffling to her; his bookishness completely alien. She secretly harbours anti-Semitic thoughts; he quietly nurses his desire. With terrifying inevitability, their stories wind towards a shocking climax as both Alma and Seigl find themselves struggling to understand what their lives are worth.With her unique, masterful balance of dark suspense and surprising tenderness, Joyce Carol Oates conveys how easily and treacherously prejudice can snake its way into human relationships.

The Tattooed Girl

BOOK DEPOT REMAINDERS

Freaky Green Eyes

Paperback,HarperCollins Children's Books 2004. Copyright The Ontario Review 2003.First published in Great Britain, Printed and Boundin England by Clays Ltd. Number line is 1-9. 223 pages.

HARPER/COLLINS

A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls. A newlywed, he has left behind his wife, Ariah Erskine, in the honeymoon suite the morning after their wedding. "The Widow Bride of The Falls," as Ariah comes to be known, begins a relentless, seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting for his body to be found. At her side throughout, confirmed bachelor and pillar of the community Dirk Burnaby is unexpectedly transfixed by the strange, otherworldly gaze of this plain, strange woman, falling in love with her though they barely exchange a word. What follows is their passionate love affair, marriage, and children -- a seemingly perfect existence.But the tragedy by which their life together began shadows them, damaging their idyll with distrust, greed, and even murder. What unfurls is a drama of parents and their children; of secrets and sins; of lawsuits, murder and eventually redemption.Set against the mythic historic backdrop of Niagara Falls, Joyce Carol Oates explores the American family in crisis, but also America itself in the mid-twentieth century. The Falls is a love story gone wrong and righted and it alone places Joyce Carol Oates definitively in the company of the great American novelists.Performed by Anna Fields

The Falls

Paperback. Pub Date :2005-07-04 Pages: 512 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK A tale of murder. loss and romance in the mist of Niagara Falls: it is the crowning achievement of Joyce Carol Oates's career to date.A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls.Hes a newly-wed. and his bride has been left behind in the honeymoon suite the morning after their wedding.For two weeks. Ariah. the deserted bride. waits by the side of the roaring waterfall for news of her husbands recovered body.During her vigil. an unlikely new love story begins to unfold when she meets a wealthy lawyer who is transfixed by her strange. otherworldly gaze.So it all begins. in the 1950s. with the dark foreboding of the Falls as the sinister background to the tragedy.From this cataclysmic event unfurls a drama of parents and their children; of secrets and sins; of lawsuits. mur...

Harperperennial

Mother, Missing

Harper Collins Publ. UK

Black Girl / White Girl

Title: Black Girl/White Girl Binding: Paperback Author: JoyceCarolOates Publisher: HarperPerennial

Black Girl White Girl

Fourth Estate

The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates.First Edition. Same days shipping. Dust Jacket Excellent.

The Gravedigger's Daughter

Literary

Harpercollins

Title: The Gravedigger's Daughter Binding: Paperback Author: JoyceCarolOates Publisher: HarperPerennial

Harper-perennial

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I'll Take You There

The Tattooed Girl

Freaky Green Eyes

The Falls

The Falls

Mother, Missing

Mother, Missing

Black Girl White Girl

The Gravedigger's Daughter

The Gravedigger's Daughter