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Title details for Wild Nights! by Joyce Carol Oates - Available

Wild Nights!

Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway

by Joyce Carol Oates
Mark Deakins
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This wonderfully bizarre new collection of stories by Joyce Carol Oates re-imagines the final days of five major American writers.

Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James and Ernest Hemingway—award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates evokes each of theses literary giants in her latest work of fiction, powerfully and audaciously reinventing the last days of their lives. In subtly nuanced language suggestive of each of these writers, Oates has created an original and haunting work of the imagination, revealing these enigmatic literary legends in a controversial new light.

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  • Release date

    April 15, 2008

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781415954201
      • File size: 209800 KB
      • Duration: 07:17:04

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Oates pays homage to some of American literature's best authors. Using Poe, James, Dickinson, Twain, and Hemingway as her characters, Oates creates fictionalized death scenes in writing styles that mimic them. So Poe lingers in an island lighthouse while Twain forms a relationship with a young girl. The Hemingway piece depicts the great writer in a state of psychosis. Mark Deakins fluidly adapts to the different style and tone of each narrative. His solemn yet rhythmic cadence for Poe's story melts into an elderly Southern voice for Twain and then transitions into a matter-of-fact tone for Hemingway. His versatile inflections make him the perfect narrator for this collection in that they allow for individual characterizations but still provide a singular voice that connects all the stories. L.E. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

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