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9. Juni 2020 · Night Sleep Death The Stars is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Stark and penetrating, Joyce Carol Oates’s latest novel is a vivid ...
9. Juni 2020 · Night Sleep Death The Stars is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all.
The Stars., from its nimble pace to exuberant set pieces. As a portrait of a family and a nation, it’s funny and tragic and sometimes bleak. Indeed, if there’s fault to be found it’s simply that the novel reads like multiple books in one, and, inevitably, some of its narrative strands get passed over too quickly. This is particularly true of the sections dealing with police racism and ...
8. Juni 2021 · Night Sleep Death The Stars is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Stark and penetrating, Joyce Carol Oates’s latest novel is a vivid ...
- Joyce Carol Oates
BUY THIS BOOK. Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. Joyce Carol Oates. Ecco, $29.95 (800p) ISBN 978-0-06-297948-3. Oates’s quintessential examination of grief (after Pursuit) draws on the closing ...
9. Juni 2020 · Night deserves the top spot on your quarantine nightstand. Here's a fervent salute to Oates, our finest American novelist, for this one.” -- Star TribuneThe bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society by one of our most enduringly popular and important writersNight Sleep Death The Stars is a gripping examination of ...
Author Oates generally does make her readers work for the meat and pleasure in her works and I don't think "Sleep, Death, etc." is any exception. On the surface at least, this is the tale of what happens to a large (two parents and five grown children) and seemingly normal family when its patriarch and magnetic center is killed in an incident of police brutality.
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- Joyce Carol Oates
