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Title Lost Landscape, The: A Writer's Coming of Age Joyce Carol Oates
Author Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Imprint New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015]

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 Mediehotell  810 Oates engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Edition First edition
Descript xiii, 353 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Note We begin -- Mommy & me -- Happy chicken : 1942-1944 -- Discovering Alice : 1947 -- District School #7, Niagara County, New York -- Piper cub -- After Black Rock -- Sunday drive -- Fred's signs -- "They all just went away" -- "Where had God gone" -- Headlights : the first death -- "The brush" -- An unsolved mystery : the lost friend -- "Start your own business!" -- The lost sister : an elegy -- Nighthawk : recollections of a lost time -- Detroit : lost city 1962-1968 -- Story into film : "Where are you going, where have you been?" and Smooth Talk -- Photo shoot : West Eleventh Street, NYC, March 6, 1970 -- Food mysteries -- Facts, visions, mysteries : my father Frederic Oates, November 1988 -- A letter to my mother Carolina on her seventy-eighth birthday, November 8, 1994 -- "When I was a little girl and my mother didn't want me" -- Excerpt, telephone conversation with my father Frederic Oates, May 1999 -- The long romance -- My mother's quilts
Oates' chronicle of her hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State describes the family members, first friendships, and early experiences with death that shaped her literary career
Subject Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- -- Childhood and youth
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Cloth or Hardcover
Biography / Autobiography
Personal Memoirs
Literary
Women
Autobiographies.
Biografi
Classmark 813/.54 B
ISBN/ISSN 9780062408679
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