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The
2004 Award
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I'll
Take You There by
Joyce Carol Oates |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| "In
those days in the early Sixties we were not women yet but girls. This was,
without irony, perceived as our advantage." So begins I'll Take
You There, an intimate and unsparing self-portrait of a nameless
young student who, though gifted with a penetrating intelligence, is drastically
inclined to obsession. Funny, mordant and compulsive, "Anellia" (as she sometime calls herself) falls passionately in love with a brilliant yet elusive black philosophy student. But she is tested most severely by a figure out of her past she'd long believed dead. Pitiless in exposing the follies of the time (the bizarre "sisterhood" of sororities, the self-lacerating extremes of the intellectual life), I'll Take You There is a dramatic revelation of the risks, - and curious rewards - of the obsessive personality as well as a testament to the stubborn strength of a certain type of contemporary female intellectual. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Joyce Carol Oates includes in her work novels - including most recently Blonde, Middle Age and We Were the Mulvaneys - short stories, novellas, poetry, plays, essays and a novel for children. She is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, USA. |
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