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299 pages ; 24 cm
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Detour -- Curious -- Miss Golden Dreams 1949 -- Wanting -- Parole hearing, California Institution for Women, Chino, CA -- Intimacy -- The flagellant -- Vaping: a user's manual -- Night, neon
Presents nine tales of psyches puyshed to their limits by the expedtations of everyday life--from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s magazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's ideals of beauty and womanhood
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Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Detour
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Curious
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Miss Golden Dreams 1949
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Wanting
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Parole hearing, California Institution for Women, Chino, CA
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Intimacy