Title: In rough country
Subtitle: essays and reviews
Description: This new collection brings together some of Joyce Carol Oates's most brilliant and provocative pieces, covering a diverse range of subjects and ideas. The rough country is both the treacherous geographical/psychological terrains of the writers she analyses--Flannery O'Connor, Shirley Jackson, Cormac McCarthy, Annie Proulx, and Margaret Atwood among others--and also the emotional terrain of Oates's own life following the unexpected death of her husband.
Subjects: Criticism, History and criticism, American literature, Literature, Essays (single author), New York Times reviewed, American essays
People: Joyce Carol Oates (1938-)
Time periods: 20th century, 21st century