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Two warrior angels. First friends, now lovers. Their future? A WILD UNKNOWN.


The (Other) You by Joyce Carol Oates

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Breathe, August 2021
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Hazards of Time Travel, December 2018
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A Book of American Martyrs, February 2017
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The Man Without a Shadow, January 2017
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The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, May 2016
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The Lost Landscape, September 2015
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The Doll Collection, March 2015
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The Sacrifice, February 2015
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Carthage, February 2014
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The Accursed, March 2013
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Black Dahlia & White Rose, September 2012
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Sourland, September 2010
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Blonde, September 2009
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The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction, October 2008
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Wild Nights!, April 2008
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The Gravedigger's Daughter, June 2007
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Black Girl/White Girl, October 2006
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High Lonesome, April 2006
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We Were the Mulvaneys, September 1996
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The (Other) You
Joyce Carol Oates

Ecco
February 2021
On Sale: February 9, 2021
304 pages
ISBN: 0063035200
EAN: 9780063035201
Kindle: B088FRJL4F
Hardcover / e-Book
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A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we’d chosen a different path, from a master of the short story

In this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives we might have led if we’d made different choices. An accomplished writer returns to her childhood home of Yewville, but the homecoming stirs troubled thoughts about the person she might have been if she’d never left. A man in prison contemplates the gravity of his irreversible act. A student’s affair with a professor results in a pregnancy that alters the course of her life forever. Even the experience of reading is investigated as one that can create a profound transformation: “You could enter another time, the time of the book.”

The (Other) You is an arresting and incisive vision into these alternative realities, a collection that ponders the constraints we all face given the circumstances of our birth and our temperaments, and that examines the competing pressures and expectations on women in particular. Finely attuned to the nuances of our social and psychic selves, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates here why she remains one of our most celebrated and relevant literary figures. 

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