THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW says:
"Joyce Carol Oates
has written her
best novel in years" *
CHILDWOLD
"The characters of
Childwold
inspire the terror
and recognition once inspired by those monu–
mental 'lonelies' of William Faulkner and Car–
son McCullers."
-* JOSEPHI~E
HENDON,
N.Y. Times Book Review
"Joyce Carol Oates's best book.... No other
contemporary writer has her directness of
vision combined with an elusiveness that en–
chants the .reader."
-EUGENIA THORNTON,
Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Readers will find her world mysterious and
meaningful. The people inhabit a world that
matters to them, and their feelings in turn grow
to demand our care."
-RICHARD BRADY,
Chicago Daily News
"In
Childwold
she demonstrates the virtuosity
that puts her in a class whose only other pres–
ent-day occupant is Vladimir Nabokov."
-FERN LONG,
Cleveland Press. $8.95
* * *
Recent stories by Joyce Carol Oates
CROSSING THE BORDER
"In each story we cross the border of our 'real'
lives into the imaginary lives of fiction....When,
at book's end, we cross back into ourselves we re–
enter with a treasure of understanding and a new
awareness of others and ourselves."
-MARJORIE M. BITKER,
The Milwaukee Journal. $8.95
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