Night-Side: 18 Tales

By Joyce Carol Oates

Book Overview

SON OF THE MORNING is the story of Nathanael Vickery conceived in sin but blessed with evangelical purpose. For him, even as a child of five, God is near; as a young boy it has already become clear... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814907938
• ISBN13: 9780814907931
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Vanguard Press
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Intricate Psychological Tales

Oates' darkest collection and probably her best. These stories range in setting from 1880's Cambridge, Massachusetts, to 1970's California and are concerned with the "night side" of human cogitation. What are we all truthfully deep down inside? DO we know ourselves? Is the side we think we live in day after day, the conscious side, truly our dominant hemisphere? Not one bad story here and several that rank among the best in modern literature. Though not by any means a horror writer, Oates comes within a whisker of that genre a few times in this book.