{"product_id":"night-sleep-death-the-stars-9780062797599","title":"Night. Sleep. Death. the Stars.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Timely, monumental. . . . Yet another piercing examination of American culture by the writer this reviewer considers our country's greatest living novelist. . . . It is brilliant. How blessed we are to have her as a novelist in our chaotic, confusing times. \u003cem\u003eNight\u003c\/em\u003e is spot on for these times of racial divide, as well as in portraying the fractious family dynamic that many of us know all too well. . . . \u003cem\u003eNight \u003c\/em\u003edeserves the top spot on your quarantine nightstand. Here's a fervent salute to Oates, our finest American novelist, for this one.\" -- Star Tribune\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society by one of our most enduringly popular and important writers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNight Sleep Death The Stars\u003c\/em\u003e is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStark and penetrating, Joyce Carol Oates's latest novel is a vivid exploration of race, psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing, as well as an intimate family novel in the tradition of the author's bestselling \u003cem\u003eWe Were the Mulvaneys.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOates, Joyce Carol:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJoyce 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 \u003cem\u003eWe Were the Mulvaneys\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eBlonde\u003c\/em\u003e, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller \u003cem\u003eThe Falls\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50553712869650,"sku":"9780062797599","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3dc633ad-01d6-4119-a8af-f775b1f14da4.jpg?v=1731702597","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/night-sleep-death-the-stars-9780062797599","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}