High Lonesome: Stories 1966-2006

High Lonesome: Stories 1966-2006 by Oates, Joyce Carol. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780060501198.

An unprecedented collection of the best of Joyce Carol Oatess short stories combined with eleven new stories No other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates, and High Lonesome: Selected Stories, 1966-2006 gathers stories from Oatess seminal collections, including The Wheel of Love (1970), Marriages and Infidelities (1972), and Heat (1991), arranged by decade. All demonstrate what the Chicago Tribune has praised: "the fierce originality of Oatess voice and vision, but also how she has imbued the American short story with an edgy vitality and raw social surfaces."