Night, neon : tales of mystery and suspense
(2021)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
MYSTERY/OATES,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : The Mysterious Press, [2021]
EDITION
First Mysterious Press edition
DESCRIPTION
299 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781613162309, 1613162308 :, 1613162308, 9781613162309
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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