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THE (OTHER) YOU - JOYCE CAROL OATES GEBUNDEN

A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we'd chosen a different path  from a
master of the short storyIn this stirring  reflective collection of short stories  Joyce Carol
Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives we might have led if we'd made different
choices. An accomplished writer returns to her childhood home of Yewville  but the homecoming
stirs troubled thoughts about the person she might have been if she'd never left. A man in
prison contemplates the gravity of his irreversible act. A student's affair with a professor
results in a pregnancy that alters the course of her life forever. Even the experience of
reading is investigated as one that can create a profound transformation: ?You could enter
another time  the time of the book.?The (Other) You is an arresting and incisive vision into
these alternative realities  a collection that ponders the constraints we all face given the
circumstances of our birth and our temperaments  and that examines the competing pressures and
expectations on women in particular. Finely attuned to the nuances of our social and psychic
selves  Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates here why she remains one of our most celebrated and
relevant literary figures.

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