Marya

work by Oates

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American literature

  • John Smith: Virginia
    In American literature: New fictional modes

    …returning in works such as Marya (1986) to the bleak blue-collar world of her youth in upstate New York. Among her later works was Blonde: A Novel (2000), a fictional biography of Marilyn Monroe. While Mailer and Oates refused to surrender the novel’s gift for capturing reality, both were compelled…

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