The Antioch Review, March 22nd, 1995
Early in her career Oates secured her position as a major American writer in the naturalist tradition when she received the National Book Award for them (1969). Since then her literary output has been prodigious - to date she has produced 24 novels and short-story collections in addition to numerous essays, poems, and plays - yet the quality of her work has fluctuated considerably. Her sorties into such popular genres as mystery and gothic romance have been inconsequential, and her serious fiction has too often been effusive and sprawling, sorely in need of editorial control. When Oates is a...
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