New Releases by Joyce Carol Oates

Twenty-five stories explore women''s struggles to achieve personal identity in a male dominated society despite the molds in which they are cast.

Seven stories of people whose "defense-structures are shattered by the rich recklessness of life."

Brings to life in Elena Howe the year''s most transfixing heroine.

Miss Oates examines the work of such writers as Chekhov, Melville, Yeats, and Toresco in this study.

Twenty four short stories all on the themes of marriage and infidelity.

"Here are stories that are intense, ironic, sinister, and violent, reflecting incisively the mores of a frightening world-- a world in whcih love is complex and difficult, in which evil is ordinary, in which senseless actions lead to even mor senseless non sequiturs, in which religion becomes antiseptic, in which families and societies exploit one another ... in which the enemy is imagined to be external, but is, in reality, within."--Dust jacket flap.