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Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories Audiobook, by Joyce Carol Oates Play Audiobook Sample

Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories Audiobook

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Read By: Jason Culp, Maggi-Meg Reed Publisher: HarperAudio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 10.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 8.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: September 2014 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780062362094

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

21

Longest Chapter Length:

74:01 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

38 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

46:15 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

65

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Publisher Description

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

From the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories that maps the eerie darkness within us all.

Insightful, disturbing, imaginative, and breathtaking in their lyrical precision, the stories in Lovely, Dark, Deep display Joyce Carol Oates’s magnificent ability to make visceral the terror, hurt, and uncertainty that lurks at the edges of ordinary lives.

In “Mastiff,” a woman and a man are joined in an erotic bond forged out of terror and gratitude. “Sex with Camel” explores how a sixteen-year-old boy realizes the depth of his love for his grandmother—and how vulnerable those feelings make him. Fearful that that her husband is “disappearing” from their life, a woman becomes obsessed with keeping him in her sight in “The Disappearing.” “A Book of Martyrs” reveals how the end of a pregnancy brings with it the end of a relationship. And in the title story, the elderly Robert Frost is visited by an interviewer, an unsettling young woman, who seems to know a good deal more about his life than she should.

A piercing and evocative collection, Lovely, Dark, Deep reveals an artist at the height of her creative power.

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“[A] collection of stories dealingwith themes of mortality…As unsympathetic as many of Oates’ mordant andquasi-anonymous characters may appear at first, en masse their fears andanxieties in the face of death and decline epitomize universal recognition ofhard facts: We’re all in this together, and nobody gets out alive.”

— Kirkus Reviews

Quotes

  • “What keeps us coming back to Oates Country is her uncanny gift of making the page a window, with something happening on the other side that we’d swear was like life itself.”

    — New York Times Book Review, praise for the author
  • “There is no better stylist alive than Joyce Carol Oates.”

    — Huntington News, praise for the author

Awards

  • Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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About Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates, an award-winning author of fiction, nonfiction, short stories, plays, and novellas, is the author of some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including two New York Times bestsellers. Her books have won the National Book Award, O. Henry Award, the Jerusalem Prize, and the National Humanities Medal, among others. Her work has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize several times. She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

About the Narrators

Jason Culp, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, has been acting since the age of ten, and his credits include a variety of television, theater, and film roles. He is best known for his role as Julian Jerome on General Hospital. In addition to audiobooks and voice-over work in national commercials, he has also narrated documentaries for National Geographic and the History Channel.

Maggi-Meg Reed has performed as an actress and singer both on and off-Broadway. She is a narrator of many popular audiobooks, including A Very Long Engagement and The Time Traveler’s Wife. She is the winner of several AudioFile Earphones Awards.