(Woman) WRITER: Occasions And Opportunities. Essays.
Oates, Joyce Carol
Price: 30.00 USD
ISBN: 0525246525New York: Dutton, 1988. The 35 essays here originally published in the most diverse of sourcesófrom Antaeus and Art & Antiques to The New York Times and Lifeóand the subjects show an astonishing breadth of interestsófrom "Moby Dick: An American Book of Wonders" to "State-of-the-Art Car: The Ferrari Testarossa." There are significant studies of Emily Dickinson, Kafka, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hemingway, Charlotte Bronte, and Mary Shelley. There are dissenting opinions on Nature and on Food (the gourmet version). Appreciations of the watercolors of Winslow Homer and the boxing paintings of George Bellows. Vivid evocations of Budapest and Detroit. A portrait report on Mike Tyson and his chapionship bout in Las Vegas. And certain to provoke a variety of reactions, an astringent but objective consideration of the difficulties that confront a (woman) writeróamong them (men) writers, from whom Oates quotes with quite devastating effect. First edition. Fine.
