High Crime Area: Tales Of Darkness And Dread

High Crime Area: Tales Of Darkness And DreadJoyce Carol Oates is an unparalleled investigator of human personality. In these eight stories, she deftly tests the bonds between damaged individuals brother and sister, teacher and student, two lonesome strangers on a subway in the fearless prose for which she's become so celebrated. In the title story, a white, aspiring professor in Detroit tries to shake a black, male shadow during the summer of the city's 1967 race riots. In "The Rescuer," a

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