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American Melancholy audiobook

  • By: Joyce Carol Oates
  • Narrator: Cheryl Smith
  • Category: Poetry, Women Authors
  • Length: 1 hours 53 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: February 09, 2021
  • Language: English
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American Melancholy Audiobook Summary

A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five years

Joyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute social consciousness, one of the most insistent and inspired witnesses of a shared American history.

Oates is perhaps best known for her prodigious output of novels and short stories, many of which have become contemporary classics. However, Oates has also always been a faithful writer of poetry. American Melancholy showcases some of her finest work of the last few decades.

Covering subjects big and small, and written in an immediate and engaging style, this collection touches on both the personal and political. Loss, love, and memory are investigated, along with the upheavals of our modern age, the reality of our current predicaments, and the ravages of poverty, racism, and social unrest. Oates skillfully writes characters ranging from a former doctor at a Chinese People’s Liberation Army hospital to Little Albert, a six-month-old infant who took part in a famous study that revealed evidence of classical conditioning in human beings.

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American Melancholy Audiobook Narrator

Cheryl Smith is the narrator of American Melancholy audiobook that was written by 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.

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American Melancholy Full Details

Narrator Cheryl Smith
Length 1 hours 53 minutes
Author Joyce Carol Oates
Category
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date February 09, 2021
ISBN 9780063035300

Subjects

The publisher of the American Melancholy is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Poetry, Women Authors

Additional info

The publisher of the American Melancholy is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780063035300.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Kasa

October 01, 2020

This is the fourth publication this year alone that I've reviewed of the work of Joyce Carol Oates, but the very first book of her poetry I've read. Each of the other books was different in style from the others (a short story collection, a 4-part novella compilation, an 800-page masterwork novel). And these poems could only have been written by her. Almost all have been previously published in journals and respected periodicals, and her choice of material reflects her intrigue of and rage against what she perceives as injustice and what damage can be wielded from one human being to another, sometimes under the cloak of "doing good" through scientific experiment. I was particularly wowed by her insight into the life and experience of Marlon Brando and his wasting of his gifts. Again, I wonder, does she ever sleep?

Philip

June 07, 2021

I've been knocking it out of the park with the poetry I've picked up of late.Oates is perhaps less known for her poetry, but she's also one of my favorite poets. I love her interpretive poems on art. In this collection, she did Martin Johnson Heade's The Coming Storm, 1859 and Edward Hopper's "Eleven A.M.," 1926 - for instance. In her collection, The Time Traveler, her poem on Hopper's Night Hawks has stayed with me.Her strongest in this collection, though, are "Obedience, 1962" about the Milgram Experiment and the searing and beautiful, "To Marlon Brando in Hell."This is another one that I'll want to read again someday soon, but will be kicking myself because I haven't and won't.

Shannon

December 02, 2020

An insightful and inspired collection of observations. True and honest, these poems bring to light all emotions that come with the small moments and the big events.

Chad

April 04, 2022

Haunting, sadly beautiful, and will change your perspective in enriching ways.

Zöe

November 29, 2021

Wonderful poetry collection! To my surprise is the two poems about the killing of female infants and selling of organs in China. Very profound and I found it a great fit to the title somehow!

Michelle

February 05, 2021

American MelancholyPoemsby Joyce Carol OatesEcco Poetry Pub Date 09 Feb 2021 I am reviewing a copy of American Melancholy through Ecco and Netgalley:Joyce Carol Oates is a powerful observer of the human heart, mind and soul with her profound social consciousness and is one of the insistent and inspired witnesses of a shared American history.Oates is best known for her novels and short stories, many of these have become contemporary classics. But Oates has always written poetry faithfully. And this collection of American Melancholy showcases some of her finest work of the last few decades.American Melancholy covers subjects that are both big and small. Joyce Carol Oates had written this collection in an immediate and engaging style, and touch both the personal as well as the political. The subjects of loss, love as well as memory are investigated, along with the upheavals of our modern age, the reality of our current predicaments, and the ravages of poverty, racism, and social unrest. In this collection Oates masterfully writes characters ranging from a former doctor at a Chinese People’s Liberation Army hospital to Little Albert, a six-month-old infant who took part in a famous study that revealed evidence of classical conditioning in human beings.I give American Melancholy five out of five stars!Happy Reading!

Greg

May 28, 2021

BAM! Poetry that owns the page. So many strong poems. Moving. I recommend this one!

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