{"product_id":"9780060729059","title":"I Am No One You Know","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Am No One You Know\u003c\/i\u003e contains nineteen startling stories that bear witness to the remarkably varied lives of Americans of our time. In \"Fire,\" a troubled young wife discovers a rare, radiant happiness in an adulterous relationship. In \"Curly Red,\" a girl makes a decision to reveal a family secret, and changes her life irrevocably. In \"The Girl with the Blackened Eye,\" selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2001, a girl pushed to an even greater extreme of courage and desperation manages to survive her abduction by a serial killer. And in \"Three Girls,\" two adventuresome NYU undergraduates seal their secret love by following, and protecting, Marilyn Monroe in disguise at Strand Used Books on a snowy evening in 1956.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese vividly rendered portraits of women, men, and children testify to Oates's compassion for the mysterious and luminous resources of the human spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAward-winning author, Joyce Carol Oates was born in 1938 and grew up in upstate New York. While a scholarship student at Syracuse University, she won the coveted \u003ci\u003eMademoiselle\u003c\/i\u003e fiction contest. She graduated as valedictorian, then earned an M.A. at the University of Wisconsin. In 1968, she began teaching at the University of Windsor. In 1978, she moved to New Jersey to teach creative writing at Princeton University, where she is now the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A prolific writer, Joyce Carol Oates has produced some of the most controversial, and lasting, fiction of our time. Her novel, \u003ci\u003eThem\u003c\/i\u003e, set in racially volatile 1960s Detroit, won the 1970 National Book Award. \u003ci\u003eBecause It Is Bitter\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003eBecause It Is My Heart\u003c\/i\u003e focused on an interracial teenage romance. \u003ci\u003eBlack Water\u003c\/i\u003e, a narrative based on the Kennedy-Chappaquiddick scandal, garnered a Pulitzer Prize nomination, and her national bestseller \u003ci\u003eBlonde\u003c\/i\u003e, an epic work on American icon Marilyn Monroe, became a National Book Award Finalist. Although Joyce Carol Oates has called herself, \"a serious writer, as distinct from entertainers or propagandists,\" her novels have enthralled a wide audience, and \u003ci\u003eWe Were the Mulvaneys\u003c\/i\u003e earned the #1 spot on the New York Times bestseller list.  ","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107666608368,"sku":"9780060729059","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780060729059_p0.jpg?v=1763619793","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780060729059","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}