Broke Heart Blues: A Novel [Paperback]

Its hard to think of another writer with as fecund and protean an imagination as the eighty-five-year-old Joyce Carol Oates, who is surely on any short list of Americas greatest living writers. Densely layered, meticulously imagined . . . [a] shared coming-of-age tale fraught with the absurd comedy and uproarious sadness of adolescent obsession . . . among the most entertaining of Oatess novels. With Joyce Carol Oates's stunning novel about one town's ramped passion for a boy accused of murder,? Oates uses her astonishingly plentiful imagination to paint the portrait of . . . virtually an entire generation of a town . . . Rife with life. Funny and playful . . . displays great inventiveness and a justified belief in its relevance to our emotional lives. A sparkling comic hit. A sharp, funny look at how memories can warp reality . . . heart-wrenching and beautifully written. Huge, humorous, manic, and multilayered, Oatess twenty-ninth novel will rank high among the best work she has produced in her prolific career.