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    Solstice
    Solstice
    Solstice
    Audiobook7 hours

    Solstice

    Written by Joyce Carol Oates

    Narrated by Emily Durante

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    About this audiobook

    An engrossing early novel from Joyce Carol Oates’s earlier novels explores a fraught and perilous relationship between two women.

    Originally published in 1985, Solstice is the gripping story of Monica Jensen and Sheila Trask, two young women who are complete opposites yet find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other. Monica is a shy, modest, and recently divorced school teacher while Sheila is a worldly, sophisticated, and nocturnal painter driven by the needs of her art. Over the months, their friendship deepens, first to love and then to a near-fatal obsession.

    Engaging, dark, and mysterious, Solstice is Joyce Carol Oates’s psychological masterpiece of friendship and fixation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateMar 19, 2019
    ISBN9780062898067
    Solstice
    Author

    Joyce Carol Oates

    Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

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      Romantic obsession in a friendship, and contemporary art, in semi-rural Pennsylvania.

      Short, concise, and somewhat opaque. I liked the way in which the style of the novel reflected the artistic manner of the character Shelia Trask.
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