In Rough Country: Essays and Reviews

"A poignant, nostalgic collection of literary criticism by one of America's premier authors."
--Kirkus Reviews

In Rough Country is a sterling collection of essays, reviews, and criticism from Joyce Carol Oates that focuses on a wide array of books and writers--from Poe to Nabokov, from Flannery O'Connor to Phillip Roth. One of our foremost novelists, National Book Award and PEN/Malamud Award winner Oates demonstrates an unparalleled understanding and appreciation of great works of literature with In Rough Country, and offers unique and breathtaking insights into the writer's art.

Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 06/29/2010
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.98h x 6.18w x 1.03d
ISBN: 9780061963988

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/26/2010 pg. 99
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2010
Booklist 07/01/2010 pg. 19
New York Times Book Review 07/18/2010 pg. 13

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.