02441cam a2200397 i 4500 556155522 TxAuBib 20220512120000.0 220206s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022930277 9781638083030 hardcover 1638083037 hardcover TxAuBib rda Oates, Joyce Carol. Curious. Night, neon : tales of mystery and suspense / Joyce Carol Oates. Center Point Large Print edition. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2022. ©2022. 398 pages (large print) : hardback ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Regular print version previously published by Penzler Publishers / The Mysterious Press. Detour -- Curious -- Miss Golden Dreams 1949 -- Wanting -- Parole hearing, California Institution for Women, Chino, CA -- Intimacy -- The flagellant -- Vaping: a user's manual -- Night, neon. "From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand-new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery and suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life--from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s magazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's ideals of beauty and womanhood. Taken as a whole, the collection forms a poignant tapestry of regular people searching for their place in a social hierarchy, often with devastating and disastrous results. Rendered with stylish, fresh writing from an author who continues to push the envelope, the stories deftly weave in and out of a stream-of-consciousness to reflect the ways we process traumatic experiences and impart that uncertainty and uneasiness to the reader."-- 20220512. Suspense fiction. Women Fiction. Large type books. short stories. Psychological fiction. Psychological fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Large type books.