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A Sentimental Education

by Joyce Carol Oates · 1980

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Six short stories about love: a love cruel, violent and often destructive, which does not admit hesitation and compromise: that love is a shattering experience, an explosion, an attack that shakes the spirit and the body. In the stories of Oates life is a battle fierce, no holds barred, for success but also for the need to be recognized, accepted, remembered and loved.

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Contains short stories:

Queen of the Night. —

The precipice. —

The tryst. —

A middle-class education. —

In the autumn of the year. —

A sentimental education.

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20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 281 pages
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short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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