Joyce Carol Oates Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/joyce-carol-oates/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sat, 25 Jan 2020 19:33:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Joyce Carol Oates Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/joyce-carol-oates/ 32 32 38398750 November Reading Wrap-Up https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/november-reading-wrap-up-3/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/november-reading-wrap-up-3/#comments Mon, 02 Dec 2019 08:12:09 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13480 November- what a month! I made it from Seattle to Ann Arbor and had a fabulous time driving across country. All our belongings showed up intact and on time with only a few hiccups. We’re still unpacking, organizing, and dealing with the ‘our furniture doesn’t fit in this space’ confusion. And getting hit with an […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/november-reading-wrap-up-3/feed/ 10 13480 The Sacrifice https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/02/sacrifice/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/02/sacrifice/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2015 08:55:32 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3751 Joyce Carol Oates is not one to shy away from the tough subjects. The last book of hers I read was Daddy Love and it was a very difficult look at child abduction and pedophilia. In The Sacrifice she is back with the story of a black teenage girl found in an abandoned factory, raped, beaten, covered in feces […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/02/sacrifice/feed/ 8 3751 Darkest: Daddy Love https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/05/darkest-daddy-love/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/05/darkest-daddy-love/#comments Fri, 31 May 2013 07:38:02 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=1705   Joyce Carol Oates is a seductress who leads you into whatever world she is exploring. This can be poignant, uplifting, or deeply disturbing. In the case of Daddy Love it’s the latter. The first four chapters recount the same time span in a mother’s life—the moment when her child is taken from her. Yet […]

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