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The lost landscape : a writer's coming of age / Joyce Carol Oates.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780062408679
  • ISBN: 0062408674
  • Physical Description: xiii, 353 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Author's note -- We Begin -- Mommy & Me -- Happy Chicken: 1942-1944 -- Discovering Alice: 1947 -- District School #7, Niagara County, New York -- Piper Cub -- After Black Rock -- Sunday Drive -- Fred's Signs -- "They All Just Went Away" -- "Where Had God Gone" -- Headlights: The First Death -- "The Brush" -- An Unsolved Mystery: The Lost Friend -- "Start Your Own Business!" -- The Lost Sister: An Elegy -- Nighthawk: Recollections of a Lost Time -- Detroit: Lost City 1962-1968 -- Story Into Film: "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" and Smooth Talk -- Photo Shoot: West Eleventh Street, NYC, March 6, 1970 -- Food Mysteries -- Facts, Visions, Mysteries: My Father Frederic Oates, November 1988 -- A Letter to My Mother Carolina on Here Seventy-Eighth Birthday, November 8, 1994 -- "When I Was a Little Girl And My Mother Didn't Want Me" -- Excerpt, Telephone Conversation with My Father Frederic Oates, May 1999 -- The Long Romance -- My Mother's Quilts -- Afterword.
Summary, etc.:
A chronicle of the author's hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State describes the family members, first friendships, and early experiences with death that shaped her literary career.
Subject: Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- > Childhood and youth.
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Genre: Autobiographies.

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The Lost Landscape : A Writer's Coming of Age
The Lost Landscape : A Writer's Coming of Age
by Oates, Joyce Carol
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Table of Contents

The Lost Landscape : A Writer's Coming of Age

SectionSection DescriptionPage Number
Author's Notep. xi
I
    We Beginp. 3
    Mommy & Mep. 5
    Happy Chicken: 1942-1944p. 11
    Discovering Alice: 1947p. 41
    District School #7, Niagara County, New Yorkp. 45
    Piper Cubp. 55
    After Black Rockp. 61
    Sunday Drivep. 69
    Fred's Signsp. 81
    "They All Just Went Away"p. 85
    "Where Has God Gone"p. 109
    Headlights: The First Deathp. 135
    "The Brush"p. 141
    An Unsolved Mystery: The Lost Friendp. 145
    "Start Your Own Business!"p. 183
    The Lost Sister: An Elegyp. 201
    Nighthawk: Recollections of a Lost Timep. 223
II
    Detroit: Lost City 1962-1968p. 269
    Story Into Film: "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" and Smooth Talkp. 277
    Photo Shoot: West Eleventh Street, NYC, March 6, 1970p. 285
    Food Mysteriesp. 293
    Facts, Visions, Mysteries: My Father Frederic Oates, November 1988p. 299
    A Letter to My Mother Carolina on Her Seventy-Eighth Birthday, November 8, 1994p. 325
    "When I Was A Little Girl and My Mother Didn't Want Me"p. 331
III
    Excerpt, Telephone Conversation With My Father Frederic Oates, May 1999p. 339
    The Long Romancep. 341
    My Mother's Quiltsp. 345
Afterwordp. 349

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