- Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Penguin (Feb 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0452274133
- ISBN-13: 978-0452274136
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.5 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,702,516 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
These stories remind us of what we all know but will not admit to. Sparing no one, Oates cuts to the bottom of every-day life and brings up the truth. Her prose is precisely calculated to make the reader fidget. In "The Revenge of the Foot, 1970", a woman, fascinated with an amputated foot some medical students are tossing about, steals it and deposits it into her lover's freezer knowing that his wife will find it. In "The Passion of Rydcie Mather", an introverted school bus driver decides to kill her passengers after coming to the conclusion that they deserve death . Oates gives no explanations and makes no excuses for her characters' behavior, instead relying on the conviction that they are emotions we have all felt (yet perhaps not acted on). The book is ended with the reader's solemn thought: "That could be me."
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A fearsome portrait of the human experience.
7 Jan 1998
Format:Mass Market Paperback
These stories remind us of what we all know but will not admit to. Sparing no one, Oates cuts to the bottom of every-day life and brings up the truth. Her prose is precisely calculated to make the reader fidget. In "The Revenge of the Foot, 1970", a woman, fascinated with an amputated foot some medical students are tossing about, steals it and deposits it into her lover's freezer knowing that his wife will find it. In "The Passion of Rydcie Mather", an introverted school bus driver decides to kill her passengers after coming to the conclusion that they deserve death . Oates gives no explanations and makes no excuses for her characters' behavior, instead relying on the conviction that they are emotions we have all felt (yet perhaps not acted on). The book is ended with the reader's solemn thought: "That could be me."
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Master Stories from a Master Storyteller
9 July 2000
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Joyce Carol Oates has really outdone herself with this collection. These stories are wonderful and are Oates at the top of her game. Each story is so well crafted and hauting, she gives you little slices of American life, each one revealing a different aspect of that life. She usually focuses on some seamliness, something dark, something sinister, but manages to keep the stories enjoyable to read. I highly recommend this collection. Oates fans will not be disappointed and for those who are not familiar with her work, it is the perfect introduction.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Tales Of Revenge, Madness, Humiliation, Coming To Consiousness, Pain!
21 Sep 2005
Format:Mass Market Paperback
In Will You Always Love Me, the flawless Joyce Carol Oates reversed a decade-long trend of writing explorations of the many facets of love among late-century couples, by returning to the delightfully complicated sorts of tales she reveled in during the early 1980's. These dyed-in-the-wool Gothic stories, set amid the familiar miscellanae of modern life, compel the reader to see existence within American society from a point of view slanted toward the harsh secret mindscapes that are concealed within each and every one of us, no matter how shallow we might outwardly appear. By establishing us as concealed voyeurs who look on into the lives of the characters in these tales, and by stripping us of our acceptance of the mundane majority of daily goings-on, we pass with Oates' aid into a state of hyper-realization and see things in these stories better than those who dwell within them: we see things as they ARE. No other writer achieves this quite as skillfully as Joyce Carol Oates. My favorite among these stories was the one in which the still-attractive middle-aged neighbor woman plotted a sexual liaison with a teenage boy she believes she has seduced. The rather frightened boy timidly admits to his mother what the woman has planned, and the mother, with the strategic brilliance of a maternal warrior set on protecting her offspring, expertly arranges the other woman's abject humiliation and in the process no doubt crumbles the would-be temptress' self-image to its heavily made-up foundations. That is viciousness doled out with a minimalism that is an Oatesean trademark. This story and nearly two-dozen others await inside Will You Always Love Me, Joyce Carol Oates' finest collection in many years.
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