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The lost landscape : a writer's coming of age / Joyce Carol Oates.
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- 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]
- Copyright: ©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. |
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| Subject: | Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- > Childhood and youth. Authors, American > 20th century > Biography. |
| Genre: | Autobiographies. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Main | 813.54 Oa8L (Text) | 31307022445854 | Non Fiction | Available | - |
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Table of Contents
The Lost Landscape : A Writer's Coming of Age
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Author's Note | p. xi | |
| I | ||
| We Begin | p. 3 | |
| Mommy & Me | p. 5 | |
| Happy Chicken: 1942-1944 | p. 11 | |
| Discovering Alice: 1947 | p. 41 | |
| District School #7, Niagara County, New York | p. 45 | |
| Piper Cub | p. 55 | |
| After Black Rock | p. 61 | |
| Sunday Drive | p. 69 | |
| Fred's Signs | p. 81 | |
| "They All Just Went Away" | p. 85 | |
| "Where Has God Gone" | p. 109 | |
| Headlights: The First Death | p. 135 | |
| "The Brush" | p. 141 | |
| An Unsolved Mystery: The Lost Friend | p. 145 | |
| "Start Your Own Business!" | p. 183 | |
| The Lost Sister: An Elegy | p. 201 | |
| Nighthawk: Recollections of a Lost Time | p. 223 | |
| II | ||
| Detroit: Lost City 1962-1968 | p. 269 | |
| Story Into Film: "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" and Smooth Talk | p. 277 | |
| Photo Shoot: West Eleventh Street, NYC, March 6, 1970 | p. 285 | |
| Food Mysteries | p. 293 | |
| Facts, Visions, Mysteries: My Father Frederic Oates, November 1988 | p. 299 | |
| A Letter to My Mother Carolina on Her Seventy-Eighth Birthday, November 8, 1994 | p. 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 1999 | p. 339 | |
| The Long Romance | p. 341 | |
| My Mother's Quilts | p. 345 | |
| Afterword | p. 349 |
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