Believable, full-blooded characters propel Oates''s first YA novel past some plotting that doesn''t quite add up. Ursula Riggs, a high school junior, has adopted a stance of invincible indifference ＂Since that day I woke up and knew I wasn''t an ugly girl, I was Ugly Girl＂. Against her mother''s wishes, she leaps to her classmate Matt Donaghy''s defense when his throwaway joke about blowing up the school makes him a suspected terrorist, but then rebuffs Matt''s overtures to friendship. Told in alterna
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Big Mouth
No I did not. I did not, I did not. I did not say those things, and I did not plan those things. Won''t It anyone believe me? Ugly Girl
All right, Ugly Girl made a mistake. I''d told my mom what I''d heard in the cafeteria, and she''d told Dad. Evidently. I''d thought for sure they would want me to speak up for the truth.
關於作者：
Joyce Carol Oates was born in 1938 in Upstate, New York. She
attended Syracuse University and graduated as Valedictorian. She then attended
University of Wisconsin where she earned an M. A. By the time she was 47 years
old, she had published at least that many separate books, including 16
full-length novels and more than a dozen collections of short stories. Some of
her works were done under the pseudonym Rosamund Smith. She has also written
numerous poems collected in several volumes, at least three plays, many critical
essays, and articles and reviews on various subjects while fulfilling her
obligations as a professor of English at the University of Windsor, where with
her husband Raymond Smith she edited the Ontario Review, which the couple has
continued since moving to Princeton in 1978. She has earned a reputation as
indubitably one of our most prolific writers and very likely one of our best.
Her fiction alone demonstrates considerable variety, ranging from direct
naturalism to complex experiments in form. However, what chiefly makes her work
her own is a quality of psychological realism, an uncanny ability to bring to
the surface an underlying sense of foreboding or a threat of violence that seems
to lurk just around the corner from the everyday domestic lives she depicts so
realistically. Her first six novels, including Them 1969, which won the
National Book Award, express these qualities in varying ways. she is also the
recipient of an NEA grant, a Guggenheim fellowship, the PENMalamud Lifetime
Achievement Award, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Lifetime Achievement in
American Literature. Her title Give Me Your Heart made the New York Times Best
seller list for 2011.
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