Wild Nights! Deluxe Edition: Stories about the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway

New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates' imaginative look at the last days of five giants of American literature, now available in a deluxe paperback edition in Ecco's The Art of the Story Series.

Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Samuel Clemens ("Mark Twain"), Henry James, Ernest Hemingway--Joyce Carol Oates evokes each of these American literary icons in this work of prose fiction, poignantly and audaciously reinventing the climactic events of their lives. In subtly nuanced language suggestive of each of these writers, Oates explores the mysterious regions of the unknowable self that is "genius."

Darkly hilarious, brilliant, and brazen, Wild Nights is an original and haunting work of the imagination.

Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 10/06/2015
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780061434822

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.2
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 122148 / Wild Nights! Stories about the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 05/24/2009 pg. 20

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.