An unprecedented collection of the best of Joyce Carol Oatess short stories combined with eleven new storiesNo other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates and High Lonesome Selected Stories - gathers stories from Oatess seminal collections including The Wheel of Love Marriages and Infidelities and Heat arranged by decade All demonstrate what the Chicago Tribune has praised the fierce originality of Oatess voice and vision but also how she has imbued the American short story with an edgy vitality and raw social surfaces
