Thursday, December 9, 2010
After the Wreck - Joyce Carol Oates
I read this book while in my observations of Mrs. Gerber's class. It is a realistic fiction that the class was reading and I could not put it down. It is about a girl who gets in a wreck with her mom and her mom dies. Then the girl has to go to rehab and live with her aunt's family in another town. It is an amzing work of Young Adult Literature and I highly recommend it. I think that the students liked it also due to the interesting poetry like text.
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I love Joyce Carol Oates. Have you read her short story "How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Started My Life Over"? I read that in college and it was my first exposure to JCO.
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Not all critics sure our enthusiasm. From Wikipedia: "Some critics have frequently stated misgivings on the level of her output, claiming most of her work is forgettable[29] or claimed that it includes a level of violence, contrived situations and rough, unpolished oppression (family conflict, domestic violence, incest, class-related, sexual and gender prejudice) that supposedly wouldn't fully belong in high literature.[30]"
I will definitely have to check out that book. Her writing style is very unique and I think that is part of the appeal as well. So what if it is not "high literature"? Its still good!
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