Saturday, May 24, 2008

Joyce Carol Oates: Making the Page a Window

In a book review posted in the New York Times, the author Joyce Carol Oates gets high praise for her clear and vivid expression:

“What keeps us coming back to Oates country is her uncanny gift of making the page a window, with something happening on the other side that we’d swear was life itself.”

Source: Joyce Carol Oates, We Were the Mulvaneys (New York: Plume, 1996), 1.

Image: “her uncanny gift of making the page a window…”

Dr. Geoff Pound