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Amazon.com Review Penzler Pick, March 2001: I guess it's no secret that I regard Joyce Carol Oates as one of the great living American writers, both of mystery-crime-suspense fiction and of virtually every other form invented. I previously reviewed Blonde , which went on to be nominated for a National Book Award, and it's my joy to be able to recommend Faithless: Tales of Transgression , the stories within which are about as good as the short story gets. (Full disclosure here, with the admission that I might be a trifle prejudiced in favor of this volume. It is dedicated to Alice Turner, the former fiction editor of Playboy, and to me--largely, I reckon, because several of these stories were written especially for several anthologies of which I was the editor.) There are 24 stories in this generous volume and while some inevitably linger longer in the memory than others, there is not a dull spot in its nearly 400 pages. The title story is a haunting tale of the disappearance of a woman as recalled by her two daughters, grown now. The ending is utterly expected but, nevertheless, comes as a shock. "The Vampire" is not at all a horror story, at least not in the sense that it inv

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Author
Oates, Joyce Carol
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Published
2001
Language
EN
ISBN
9780060771287
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery
Rating
3.73 / 5 (1,020 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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