Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars., Joyce Carol Oates
Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars., Joyce Carol Oates
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Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.
A Novel

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Cheryl Smith

Unabridged: 30 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ecco

Published: 06/09/2020

Synopsis

The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society by one of our most enduringly popular and important writers.Night Sleep Death The Stars is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all.Stark and penetrating, Joyce Carol Oates’s latest novel is a vivid exploration of race, psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing, as well as an intimate family novel in the tradition of the author’s bestselling We Were the Mulvaneys.

About Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer on May 18, 2022

I haven’t read something so good for so long! I confess! I was scared and my eyes were about to pop out of my sockets as soon as I saw page numbers of the book. I liked to work on long books but they should be “Goldfinch” worthy greatly written and memorable reads. I was having second thoughts but......more

Goodreads review by Karen on March 31, 2020

This was so good! Set in Hammond New York. I was thoroughly caught up inside the lives and minds of this big family...a quite wealthy family...a widow and her five adult children... all struggling to move on after the tragic loss of their much beloved husband/father. There are many topics touched on i......more

Goodreads review by Eric on July 23, 2020

Since Joyce Carol Oates frequently writes about social and political issues at the heart of American society her fiction can often feel eerily prescient. But it's an extraordinary coincidence that in the week preceding the publication of her latest novel NIGHT. SLEEP. DEATH. THE STARS. widely public......more

Goodreads review by Judy on September 10, 2020

Note: This is one of the longest reviews I have written in a while. It is a plea for the benefits of reading outside one's comfort zone. I hope you understand. I think it is safe to say that readers are divided into devoted fans of Joyce Carol Oates and those who would not read her, ever! Here is h......more

Goodreads review by Martie on April 27, 2020

Genre: Literary Fiction/Family Saga Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: June 9, 2020 Joyce Carol Oates has long been a favorite literary author of mine. Just when I think that she can’t do it again—write another gripping family saga—she does. The book’s title comes from the closing lines of Walt Whitma......more

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