{"product_id":"9780062010728","title":"Sourland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eA gripping and moving new collection of stories that reimagines the meaning of loss—through often unexpected and violent means.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoyce Carol Oates is not only one of our most important novelists and literary critics, she is also an unparalleled master of the short story. \u003cem\u003eSourland\u003c\/em\u003e—sixteen previously uncollected stories that explore how the power of violence, loss, and grief shape both the psyche and the soul—shows us an author work-ing at the height of her powers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith lapidary precision and an unflinching eye, Oates maps the surprising contours of “ordinary” life. From a desperate man who dons a jack-o’-lantern head as a prelude to a most curious sort of courtship, to a “story of a stabbing” many times recounted in the life of a lonely girl; from a beguiling young woman librarian whose amputee state attracts a married man and father, to a girl hopelessly in love with her renegade, incarcerated cousin; from a professor’s wife who finds herself tragically isolated at a party in her own house, to the concluding title story of an unexpectedly redemptive love rooted in radical aloneness and isolation, each story in \u003cem\u003eSourland\u003c\/em\u003e resonates beautifully with Oates’s trademark fascination for the unpredictable amid the prosaic—the comming-ling of sexual love and violence, the tumult of family life—and shines with her predilection for dark humor and her gift for voice. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078482444528,"sku":"9780062010728","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780062010728_p0.jpg?v=1763624998","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780062010728","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}