I Am No One You Know
Subtitle: Stories
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: April 5, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780060592899
Subjects: Oates, Joyce Carol - Poems & Criticism; Fiction - General; Fiction; Short Stories (single author); Fiction / Short Stories (single author); Literary
First sentence: I WAS DADDY'S FAVORITE of his seven kids, but still he sent me into exile when I was thirteen and refused to speak to me for twenty-seven years, nor would he allow me to return to our house on Crescent Avenue, Perrysburg, New York, even when Grandma died (though he couldn't keep me away from the funeral mass at St. Stephen's and afterward the burial in the church cemetery, where I stood at a distance, crying) when I was twenty-two.