Author:
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Imprint:New York : Ecco Press, 2015.
Description:xiii, 353 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:We begin -- Mommy & me -- Happy chicken : 1942-1944 -- Discovering Alice : 1947 -- District School #7, Niagara County, New York -- Piper Cub -- After Black Rock -- Sunday drive -- Fred's signs -- "They all just went away" -- "Where had God gone" -- Headlights : the first death -- "The brush" -- An unsolved mystery : the lost friend -- "Start your own business!" -- Lost sister : an elegy -- Nighthawk : recollections of a lost time -- Detroit : lost city 1962-1968 -- Story into film : "Where are you going, where have you been?" and Smooth Talk -- Photo shoot : West Eleventh Street, NYC, March 6, 1970 -- Food mysteries -- Facts, visions, mysteries : my father Frederic Oates, November 1988 -- A letter to my mother Carolina on her seventy-eighth birthday, November 8, 1994 -- "When I was a little girl and my mother didn't want me" -- Excerpt, telephone conversation with my father Frederic Oates, May 1999 -- Long romance -- My mother's quilts.
