Faithless: Tales of Transgression

In this collection of twenty-one unforgettable stories, Joyce Carol Oates explores the mysterious private lives of men and women with vivid, unsparing precision and sympathy. By turns interlocutor and interpreter, magician and realist, she dissects the psyches of ordinary people and their potential for good and evil with chilling understatement and lasting power.

Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 06/04/2002
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.46w x 0.99d
ISBN: 9780060933579

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 07/14/2002 pg. 24

About the Author
Oates, Joyce Carol: -

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.