The revealing and fascinating personal journals of Joyce Carol Oates from one of the most important and productive periods of her long career create a portrait of the artist as a young woman, fully engaged with her world and her culture, a writer who paradoxically fancied herself "invisible" but who was quickly becoming one of the most respected, discussed, and controversial figures in American letters.
The revealing and fascinating personal journals of Joyce Carol Oates from one of the most important and productive periods of her long career create a portrait of the artist as a young woman, fully engaged with her world and her culture, a writer who paradoxically fancied herself "invisible" but who was quickly becoming one of the most respected, discussed, and controversial figures in American letters.