Joyce Carol Oates -- Last Days and Other Stories
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We'll explore five stories from three decades; all the stories are in:
High Lonesome: Selected Stories, 1966-2006 by Joyce Carol Oates:
**https://www.amazon.com/High-Lonesome-Selected-Stories-1966-2006/dp/0060501200**
Two Stories are related by content:
"In the Region of Ice" & "Last Days"
Consider reading them in that order for a magnifying effect.
The other cluster of stories are thematically related:
"How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again..."
"Small Avalanches "
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
Other stories we might mention but are entirely optional:
"Heat,"; "Upon Sweeping Flood"; "Mark Of Satan,"; "The Knife," & "The Tryst,"
All the stories are in the collection: High Lonesome but most are also available elsewhere.
The stories are also available online for free by creating an account at Archive.com
in the following collections:
https://archive.org/details/highlonesomenews0000oate/page/408/mode/2up
"Last Days" original collection for the title story only;
https://archive.org/details/lastdaysstories00oate/page/18/mode/2up
The remaining four stories are in this other collection:
A feature film version of "Where are you going where have you been,":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_Talk
and a short film from "In the Region of Ice,":
https://worldscinema.org/2021/06/peter-werner-in-the-region-of-ice-1976/
And another short film from "Small Avalanches":