The KeyTone Clusters, Joyce Carol Oates
The KeyTone Clusters, Joyce Carol Oates
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The Key/Tone Clusters

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Ed Asner, Full Cast

Unabridged: 1 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/25/2009

Synopsis

Two one-act plays by Joyce Carol Oates.

The Key: a hilarious perverse encounter between a vacationing suburban housewife, recently separated from her husband, and a prosperous businessman.

Tone Cluster: a chilling trig-comedy that takes the form of an interview between a middle-aged, middle-class American couple and the media.

Full-cast L.A. Theatre Works performances featuring Edward Asner, Hector Elizondo, Don Reed, Joyce Van Patten, JoBeth Williams

About Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is the author of such national bestsellers as The Falls, Blonde, and We Were the Mulvaneys. Her other titles include Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense, which features "The Woman in the Window," selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2017; The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, which won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection; and Jack of Spades. She is the recipient of the National Book Award for Them and the 2010 President's National Humanities Medal.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kim

#popsugarreadingchallenge prompt 8: upside down image on the cover Two short radio plays with a real punch. Both of these were very moving and also amusing and entertaining. In the first story a couple seems to meet in a bar in a holiday resort. They way the female character skips and slides around th......more

Goodreads review by Jay

A short refreshing couple of radio plays. The LA Theater Works production contributed greatly to the stories. The first story was a conversation between vacationers in St. Kitts, a housewife looking at change, and a businessman looking for a woman. The second story was an interview of a married coup......more

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