Joyce Carol Oates, Dear Husband: Stories

Paola Trimarco (The Open University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 2009

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Story Collection

Resources

Published in 2009, this is Oates’s twenty-fifth collection of short stories, which appeared at a time when the writer was an acknowledged and award winning literary figure of novels and short stories. Dear Husband contains fourteen stories, most of which had been previously published in magazines, including The New Yorker, Yale Review and American Short Fiction. These highly acclaimed stories center around themes familiar to Oates’s readers: filial and sibling relationships, violence, and the values of modern America.

At the time of its publication, this collection received attention based on the success of Oates’s novels Blonde (2000), which was a bestseller and adapted into a television m…

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Citation: Trimarco, Paola. "Dear Husband: Stories". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 06 March 2015 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=30833, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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