Joyce Carol Oates

The Lost Landscape: a Writer's Coming of Age Joyce Carol Oates

Publisher Marketing: Written with the raw honesty and poignant insight that were the hallmarks of her acclaimed bestseller "A Widow s Story," "The Lost Landscape" is an affecting and observant memoir of growing up from one of our finest and most beloved literary masters."The Lost Landscape" is Joyce Carol Oates vivid chronicle of her hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State. From memories of her relatives, to those of a charming bond with a special red hen on her family farm; from her first friendships to her earliest experiences with death, "The Lost Landscape" is a powerful evocation of the romance of childhood, and its indelible influence on the woman and the writer she would become. In this exceptionally candid, moving, and richly reflective account, Oates explores the world through the eyes of her younger self, an imaginative girl eager to tell stories about the world and the people she meets. While reading "Alice in Wonderland" changed a young Joyce forever and inspired her to view life as a series of endless adventures, growing up on a farm taught her harsh lessons about sacrifice, hard work, and loss. With searing detail and an acutely perceptive eye, Oates renders her memories and emotions with exquisite precision, transporting us to a forgotten place and time the lost landscape of her youth, reminding us of the forgotten landscapes of our own earliest lives. " Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/01/2015 pg. 61 (EAN 9780062408679, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2015 (EAN 9780062408679, Hardcover) Library Journal 07/01/2015 pg. 84 (EAN 9780062408679, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 07/06/2015 (EAN 9780062408679, Hardcover) Booklist 08/01/2015 pg. 17 (EAN 9780062408679, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Contributor Bio:  Oates, Joyce Carol Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Accursed. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.