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A hugely creative new assortment of stories by Joyce Carol Oates that graphs the astonishing ways the planet we think we understand may suddenly expose its deeper curves The New York Times has praised Joyce Carol Oates as "a dangerous writer in the very best sense of the term, person who takes risks nearly frantically with power and experience." White Rose & black Dahlia, an accumulation of eleven previously uncollected stories, displays the rewards of Oatesis persistent creation and brio. In one single superbly produced tale after another, Oates examines the risk that lurks in the sides of and intrudes upon also the apparently best of lives—and routes with uncommon psychological skill the cost of such uses. Unafraid to venture into no-man's-countries equally real and unique, Oates takes visitors deep into hazardous place, from the maximum-security prison—vividly delineating the tragic and unforeseen environment of this kind of institution—to the internal areas of two gorgeous and inexplicably condemned ladies in 1940s L A: Elizabeth Short, normally referred to as the Black Dahlia, target of the long-unsolved and especially brutal homicide, and her partner Norma Jeane Baker, soon-to become Marilyn Monroe. Whether researching the mental coercion of the spouse of the well-to-do businessman who is ravished by, and elopes with, a fan who isn't what he appears or even the uneasily duplicitous relationships between ladies and their parents, Black Dahlia & White Rose examines the persuasive intertwining of fear and need, the psychic draw and upheaval of domestic life, and resonates at every change with Oatesis mordant wit and her trenchant statement.