Black dahlia & white rose
By: Joyce Carol Oates
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780062195692
Subjects: Short stories
Other titles: Black dahlia and white rose
Description: In this work the author offers a collection of 11 previously uncollected stories, including a title piece that tracks the friendship between Elizabeth Short, famously known as the Black Dahlia, the victim of a markedly brutal murder in 1940s Los Angeles that remains unsolved, and her roommate, Norma Jeane Baker who became Marilyn Monroe.  In each of these stories the author explores the menace that lurks at the edge of and intrudes upon even the seemingly safest of lives and maps the transformational cost of such instrusions.
Table of contents: title: Black dahlia & white rose; title: I.D.; title: Deceit; title: Run kiss daddy; title: Hey dad; title: The good Samaritan; title: A brutal murder in a public place; title: Roma!; title: Spotted hyenas: a romance; title: San Quentin; title: Anniversary.