{"product_id":"9781801104654","title":"Night, Neon - Joyce Carol Oates","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery \u0026amp; suspense stories.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life - from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s magazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's ideals of beauty and womanhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaken as a whole, the collection forms a poignant tapestry of regular people searching for their place in a social hierarchy, often with devastating and disastrous results. Rendered with stylish, fresh writing from an author who continues to push the envelope, the stories deftly weave in and out of a stream-of-consciousness to reflect the ways we process traumatic experiences and impart that uncertainty and uneasiness to the reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally appearing in publications as disparate as \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVice\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eConjunctions\u003c\/i\u003e, the stories comprising \u003ci\u003eNight, Neon\u003c\/i\u003e showcase Oates' mastery of the suspense story - and her relentless use of the form to conduct unapologetically honest explorations of American identity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Head of Zeus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44731191787747,"sku":"9781801104654","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1701\/6275\/files\/9781801104654.jpg?v=1712682759","url":"https:\/\/www.harbourbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781801104654","provider":"The Harbour Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}