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Joyce Carol Oates, Extenuating Circumstances
Joyce Carol Oates, Extenuating Circumstances

Tue, Aug 02

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Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse

Joyce Carol Oates, Extenuating Circumstances

Joyce will be in conversation with author, David Morrell. Twenty-two disturbing tales of crime and suspense from "America's preeminent fiction writer" (New Yorker)

Date, Time & Location

Aug 02, 2022, 6:00 PM MDT

Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA

About the Event

This will be an in-store presentation and we will live stream the evening on Zoom, please register to watch here.

If you are attending in person, for your safety and those around you, we will be requiring all audience members wear a mask.

Two hitmen in a depressed rust belt town struggle with a job gone wrong. A girl witnesses a horrifying accident and carries it with her for the rest of her life. Medical students bring a severed foot to a college party. Five-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Joyce Carol Oates has made a career of exploring the forbidden corners of human experience, and the stories collected here, spanning her first three decades as a writer, are among her most unsettling and unforgettable works to date.

Originally published in long out-of-print volumes, these tales have not appeared in any form this century—until now; formally fresh and endlessly experimental, they show…

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