Recommended Article By adva: <em>Little Bird of Heaven</em> by Joyce Carol Oates

[adva]

Hi Toneclusters,
Your friend, adva, has recommended this article entitled 'Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates' to you.

Here is his/her remark:
HI PEOPLE OF THE LIST, HERE IS A CRITIC OF OATES' BOOK "LITTLE BIRD OF HEAVEN", HOPE YOU FIND IT OF INTEREST.

Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates
Posted By Elinor Teele On September 8, 2009 (9:43 am) In Fiction Reviews

Little Bird of Heaven: A Novel

by Joyce Carol Oates

Ecco, 448 pp.

CLR Rating:

Broken Dreams

“How bleak was my puberty!”

No, this is not a quote from Joyce Carol Oates’s new novel, Little Bird of Heaven (it’s an inappropriately irreverent comment by Agnes Gooch in Auntie Mame), but it about sums up the gist of Little Bird...

Article taken from California Literary Review - http://calitreview.com
URL to article: http://calitreview.com/4667

[Virginia Bucci]

Thank you for the link below, Adva!  I'm looking forward to reading this new book and have reserved myself a copy at Amazon.

 

As I read through the detailed review, couldn't help thinking again how fortunate I am to have JCO in my 'corner.'  One of life's small blessings, for me.  Without even considering how fortuitously her themes coincide with issues that touched my life, so I am guided to analyze them. It is enough simply to have this one writer who so often visits the byways of upstate NY.  I spent the first 23 yrs of my life within just 100 mis or so of any one of her fictionalized territories, as did generations of my mother's clan. Having spent the subsequent decades in metro areas (NYC, and briefly near Detroit, another area illuminated by Oates), I miss the peculiarity and beauty of those places, and the people shaped by them. The sharp and telling detail conveyed even in the few snatches quoted in this review brings it very close indeed.

 

ginny b

[Jane]

Here is a link to the review in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/books/review/Watrous-t.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail1=y

On Sep 12, 2:57 am, adva <advas...@netvision.net.il> wrote:
> Hi Toneclusters,

> Your friend, adva, has recommended this article entitled '<em>Little Bird of Heaven</em> by Joyce Carol Oates' to you.
>
> Here is his/her remarks:

> HI PEOPLE OF THE LIST, HERE IS A CRITIC OF OATES' BOOK "LITTLE BIRD OF HEAVEN", HOPE YOU FIND IT OF INTEREST.
>

> <em>Little Bird of Heaven</em> by Joyce Carol Oates

> Posted By Elinor Teele On September 8, 2009 (9:43 am) In Fiction Reviews
>

> Little Bird of Heaven: A Novel
>

> by Joyce Carol Oates
> Ecco, 448 pp.
> CLR  Rating:
>

> Broken Dreams
>
> "How bleak was my puberty!"
>

> No, this is not a quote from Joyce Carol Oates's new novel, Little Bird of Heaven (it's an inappropriately irreverent comment by Agnes Gooch in Auntie Mame), but it about sums up the gist of Little Bird of Heaven.
>
> The setting is Sparta, a fictional city that, to put it politely, has seen better days:
>
> The ruins of an American city devastated by war, a post-industrial American city in upstate New York – but what exactly had happened here? There...
> Article taken from California Literary Review -http://calitreview.com

[Virginia Bucci]

Thanks I missed this Jane. I have my new hardcover copy on the shelf
waiting as I finish up some of the pseudonymic literature. Just finishing
'Lauren Kelly''s "Take Me, Take Me With You" published in 2004 -- the plot
and female protagonist/ male counterpart seem set up quite similarly to the
new "Little Bird" novel, & work through similar themes in a similar setting.
It will be interesting to compare the two.

ginny b

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[Davelyn Robbins]

In her collection of short stories last year, Dear Husband, one of the
pieces, "Maria Magda" was set in Sparta and reminds me of this novel in many
some ways--even the Seneca relations. Could this have been the seed,
however remote, of her latest book (see NYT)?

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